“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To be vindicated in my own lifetime.”
Christopher Hitchens
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“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
Stephen Roberts
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“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”
Ayn Rand
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“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.”
Richard Dawkins
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“Most people would rather die than think: in fact, most do.”
Bertrand Russell
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“God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.”
Raimundo Panikkar
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“It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.”
Reverend Mackerel
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“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”
Edith Sitwell
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate,
contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and
unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the
discomfort of thought.”
John F Kennedy
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“If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
Lenny Bruce
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