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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

“وقتی با حقیقت مرگ خودمان که پر از وحشت و اضطراب بنیادی است و محرک تمام بلندپروازی‌های بیهوده‌ی زندگی است، کنار بیاییم، می‌توانیم ارزش‌هایمان را آزادانه‌تر و رهاتر و با رواداری بیشتر انتخاب کنیم.”
― mark manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck & How to be F*cking Awesome

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
― Alain de Botton

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

“We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.”
― Sam Harris

“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic