5 Quotes by Christopher Hitchens about humility
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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.
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In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
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The most educated person in the world now has to admit—I shall not say confess—that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.
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Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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