There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
Christopher HitchensLiterature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Christopher HitchensOne of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher HitchensThere is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that personโs propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.
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