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Quotes Tagged "2005"

Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.
— Harry G. Frankfurt On Bullshit
Tags: truth, sincerity, philosophy, bullshit, 2005
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?
— Christopher Hitchens
Tags: voltaire, tsunamis, theodicy, stupidity, sheep, rowan-williams, religion, natural-disasters, insults, indian-ocean, earthquakes, church-of-england, atheism, archbishop-of-canterbury, 2005, 2004-earthquake-and-tsunami, 2004
How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.
— Orson Scott Card Shadow of the Giant
Tags: time, tempus-fugit, bean, 2005
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