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    Douglas Adams
    “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: equality, life, logic, opinions
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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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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
    tags: atheism, humanism
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
    tags: antitheism, arrogance, atheism, modesty, religion, solipsism
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A person hears only what they understand.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
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    Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: knowledge
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Everything is hard before it is easy”
    ― Goethe J.W.
    tags: motivational
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Richard Dawkins
    “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
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: curiosity, philosophy, wonder
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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    Plato
    “I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
    ― Plato, Apology
    tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
    tags: critical-thinking, extremism, opinion, opinions, passion, rationalism, skeptic, skeptical, skepticism, superficiality
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    Charles Darwin
    “To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
    ― Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
    tags: critical-thinking, error, fact, reason, truth
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    Richard Dawkins
    “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
    tags: children, critical-thinking, indoctrination
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: atheism, inspirational
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Carl Sagan
    “I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: atheism, education, religion, science
    813 likes



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