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#1

“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

1186 likes

#2

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy

8081 likes

#3

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

4629 likes

#4

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

44322 likes

#5

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

15489 likes

#6

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7576 likes

#7

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

7273 likes

#8

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

8067 likes

#9

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic

3324 likes

#10

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste

2891 likes

#11

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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#12

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37987 likes

#13

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

22518 likes

#14

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21433 likes

#15

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

19851 likes

#16

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

18685 likes

#17

“The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast [...]”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

tags: threats, wisdom, wrath

7 likes

#18

“Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

40 likes

#19

“Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

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#20

“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

55 likes

#21

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
― Steven Weinberg

tags: atheism, bible, god, religion

835 likes

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