Pz Myers Quotes

#1. Most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

Richard Dawkins

#2. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius

#3. Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

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#4. Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is. And while it reigns, it is as if there is nothing in the universe that it is not.

Richard Flanagan

#5. The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

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#6. Religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

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#7. We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

F. Sionil Jose

#8. A lot of people have already labeled me the Savior.

Robert Griffin III

#9. Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

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#10. And of course death can't be conquered ... but oh, the battle can be glorious.

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#11. Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

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#12. We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious; we should be purposefully obnoxious.

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#13. Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

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#14. Human beings are still fish.

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#15. It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

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#16. We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

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#17. I could look at stationers' shops forever and ever.

Dodie Smith

#18. Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

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#19. People who love each other don't bargain. Love has no such thing as business. Love has no conditions, because love does not obey time and space.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#20. We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

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#21. I've always been an advocate of knowledge is power, but at the moment I'm favouring ignorance is bliss

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#22. Smells like teen spirit.

A.G. Howard

#23. Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

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#24. Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

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#25. For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Amy Bloom

#26. Always remember: science first!

Andy Andrews

#27. Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.

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#28. And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

David Tennant