Richard Dawkins Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

• Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Religious, Pride

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.267, Random House

• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Atheist, Learning

  "The Two Types of Faith" by Greg Cootsona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2016.

• ...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Children, Parent

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Business, Believe

  "The Real Romance in the Stars". www.independent.co.uk. December 31, 1995.

• The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Animal, Years

  "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1995.

• When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

  Richard Dawkins

  Taken, Dying, Should

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.400, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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