Zarir Patel

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read‎ (59)
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3-self-discovery‎ (47)
2-trading-investing‎ (45)
1-science‎ (39)
5-india‎ (26)

4-history‎ (25)
politics‎ (16)
biography‎ (12)
7-health‎ (10)

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fiction‎ (8)
9-travel‎ (6)
8-music‎ (2)

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Zarir’s Quotes

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: institutions, organized-religion, religion, richard-dawkins

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“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: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

tags: atheism, philosophy

4648 likes

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, existentialism, follow-your-bliss, self-actualization, self-determination

1490 likes

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

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“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

tags: satisfaction, understanding

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