Boghossian Quotes

#1. Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

Peter Boghossian

#2. Reasoning away faith means helping people to abandon a faulty epistemology, but reasoning away religion means that people abandon their social support network.

Peter Boghossian

#3. If one had sufficient evidence to warrant belief in a particular claim, then one wouldn't believe the claim on the basis of faith. "Faith" is the word one uses when one does not have enough evidence to justify holding a belief, but when one just goes ahead and believes anyway.

Peter Boghossian

#4. A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard knocks. She relentlessly helps others by tearing down falsehoods about whatever enshrined "truths" enslave us.

Peter Boghossian

#6. The sins of the fathers are to be born by their children's children's children? What sort of justice is that? This goes against half a millennium's worth of Western jurisprudence.

Peter Boghossian

#7. I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way ... As a candidate who was already so well known ... I don't think I ever said, 'Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don't take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.

Hillary Clinton

#8. I'll be your friend in daylight. I'll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I'll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Courtney Milan

#9. Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.

Shelby Lynne

#10. Certainty is an enemy of truth: examination and reexamination are allies of truth.

Peter Boghossian

#11. Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.

John Spence

#12. Reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.

Peter Boghossian

#13. Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

Peter Boghossian

#14. Pat Tillman (for abandoning an incredibly promising football career to give his life for his country).

Peter Boghossian

#15. Socrates said that a man doesn't want what he doesn't think he lacks. That is, if you believe you have the truth then why would you seek another truth?

Peter Boghossian

#16. You're already to rush into danger to save her.

Lily Harper Hart

#17. How's our young guest?" he asked.
As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers.
She constantly demands to see her mother," said another, "and somewhat less constantly demands that we return her homburg to her.

Frank Beddor

#18. DUMB AUTUMN SMELLS. The
marguerite, unbroken, passed
between home and chasm through
your memory.
A strange lostness was
palpably present, almost
you would have lived.

Paul Celan

#19. I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

Trenton Lee Stewart

#20. Punitive ghosts like steam-driven tennis courts
haunt the apples in my nonexistent orchard.
I remember when there were just worms out there
and they danced in moonlit cores on warm September
nights.

Richard Brautigan

#21. The only way to avoid eternal punishment for sins we never committed from this all-loving God is to accept his son - who is actually himself - as our savior. So ... God sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself. Barking mad!

Peter Boghossian

#22. When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Peter Boghossian

#23. Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Francis Bacon

#24. An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

Peter Boghossian

#25. If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence
and punishes those who do.

Peter Boghossian

#26. What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Ashlee Simpson