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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Sam Harris
    “We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.”
    ― Sam Harris
    tags: faith, reason, religion, science, skeptic
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    Sam Harris
    “Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.”
    ― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
    tags: faith, reason, religion, science, skeptic
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    W.H. Auden
    “The Ogre does what ogres can,
    Deeds quite impossible for Man,
    But one prize is beyond his reach:
    The Ogre cannot master speech.

    About a subjugated plain,
    Among its desperate and slain,
    The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
    While drivel gushes from his lips.”
    ― W.H. Auden, Selected Poems
    tags: drivel, ogres
    39 likes

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    David Hume
    “The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.”
    ― David Hume
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
    1187 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: humor, literature, postmodernism
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    George Orwell
    “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: courage, truth
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    Richard Dawkins
    “It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?

    By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
    ― Richard Dawkins
    tags: atheism, good-advice, nobel-prize, open-minded, science, suggestion, television
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks
    tags: knowledge, maxims, philosophy, science
    170 likes

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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Salvador Dalí
    “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: age, ambition, dreaming, dreams, youth
    654 likes

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    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden

    Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: censorship, dissent, free-expression, freedom, radical, rebel
    189 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
    1816 likes

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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
    2369 likes

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    “Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out”
    ― James Oberg
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    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading
    3615 likes

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    Salman Rushdie
    “To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
    tags: interconnectedness, life
    259 likes

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    Christopher Hitchens
    “When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: baldness, hitchens, media, news
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    R.G. Collingwood
    “The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.”
    ― R.G. Collingwood
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