“There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn’t wrong too?”
― Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
― Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely that hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“One's very own free, unfettered desire, one's own whim, no matter how wild, one's own fantasy, even though sometimes roused to the point of madness -- all this constitutes precisely that previously omitted, most advantageous advantage which isn't included under any classification and because of which all systems and theories are constantly smashed to smithereens.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“One of my pet peeves is the habit of labelling young children with the religion of their parents: ‘Catholic child’, ‘Protestant child’, ‘Muslim child’. Such phrases can be heard used of children too young to talk, let alone hold religious opinions. It seems to me as absurd as talking about a ‘Socialist child’ or ‘Conservative child’, and nobody would ever use a phrase like that. I don’t think we should talk about ‘atheist children’ either.”
― Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
― Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
“I've only taken to an extreme that which you haven't even dared to take halfway.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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