Peter Boghossian Quotes

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

Peter Boghossian

#2. Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. 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

#4. 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

#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 am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me ... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

David Crockett

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

Peter Boghossian

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

Peter Boghossian

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

Peter Boghossian

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

Peter Boghossian

#12. 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

#13. I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Marilyn Monroe

#14. As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. 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

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

Peter Boghossian

#17. I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.

Foster Friess

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

Peter Boghossian

#19. 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

#20. As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

Hugo Weaving