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"One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales."
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"People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it."
"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."
"Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled."How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?"
"Science is not a democracy. Therefore to try to pass of global warming as real just because "98% of scientists say they agree" makes no sense at all. If 98% of psychiatrists said that all mentally ill people needed lobotomized, does that make it true? If 98% of your friends jumped off a building, would you jump, too?"
"I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them."
"Beware of the man who's extraordinary claims end in a sales pitch."
"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know."
"I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories."
"Never trust a high altitude astronomer."
"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence."
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"The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for."
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