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Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

— Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)

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Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere (2000)

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

Emancipate yourself from the idea of a celestial dictatorship and you've taken the first step to becoming free.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (1993)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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