“Morality doesn’t mean ‘following divine commands’. It means ‘reducing suffering’. Hence in order to act morally, you don’t need to believe in any myth or story. You just need to develop a deep appreciation of suffering.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“In the 300 years of the crucifixion of Christ to the conversion of Emperor Constantine, polytheistic Roman emperors initiated no more than four general persecutions of Christians. Local administrators and governors incited some anti-Christian violence of their own. Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians. In contrast, over the course, of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions, to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”
― קיצור תולדות האנושות
― קיצור תולדות האנושות
“When the faithful are asked whether God really exists, they often begin by talking about the enigmatic mysteries of the universe and the limits of human understanding. ‘Science cannot explain the Big Bang,’ they exclaim, ‘so that must be God’s doing.’ Yet like a magician fooling an audience by imperceptibly replacing one card with another, the faithful quickly replace the cosmic mystery with the worldly lawgiver. After giving the name of ‘God’ to the unknown secrets of the cosmos, they then use this to somehow condemn bikinis and divorces. ‘We do not understand the Big Bang – therefore you must cover your hair in public and vote against gay marriage.’ Not only is there no logical connection between the two, but they are in fact contradictory. The deeper the mysteries of the universe, the less likely it is that whatever is responsible for them gives a damn about female dress codes or human sexual behaviour.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“الحياة الانسانية لاتحدث إلا مرة واحدة ، ولن يكون في وسعنا أبدا أن نتحقق أي قرار هو الجيد وأي قرار هو السيء، لأننا في كل الحالات لا يمكننا إلا أن نقرر مرة واحدة .. لأنه لم تعط لنا حياة ثانية أو ثالثة أو رابعة حتى نستطيع أن نقارن بين قرارات مختلفة .”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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