Home / Quotes / Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.”

Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Author

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was an English-American author, journalist, and social critic. He was known for his sharp wit and controversial views, particularly on religion and politics. Hitchens was a prominent figure in the public discourse of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. more

You May Also Like

“Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.”

Looks Stories Eye Jesus Moses Defective Look Me In The Eye

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.”

“I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.”

Thinking Mean Ideas Belief Religious Atheist Organized Hostile Positively Religious Belief Bad Ideas Organized Religion

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote anything down. It doesn't matter to me whether he did or not exist because we have his teachings, his method of thinking, and his extreme intellectual and moral courage.”

Thinking Knows Matter Jesus Moral Teaching Intellectual Method Extremes Proof Witness Moral Courage

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what you should be spending your life is in spreading and deepening that tradition.”

People Thinking Should Life Is Praying Authority Tradition Spending Aids

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.”

Reality Beautiful Evil Boring Monotonous

Author:Simone Weil

“I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.”

People Way Said Moving Wonderful Havens Mountain Findings Extraordinary Spending Wonderful Things Telescopes Spending Time Microscopes Move Mountains

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.”

Ifs Ideas Moments Pleasure Example Sacred Sexuality Visuals Finest Seducing Deductions Sure Thing Tandem

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual.”

Thinking Way Play Hands Path Media Genuine Inevitable Visuals Seduction Reduction Deductions

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to think about, and we have a need for, what I would call, "the transcendent" or "the numinous" or even "the ecstatic" that comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort.”

Thinking Knows Needs Giving Dies Laughing Know How Landscape Transcendent Ecstatic Music And Love Numinous

Author:Christopher Hitchens