Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Choices, Free Will, Courses

• Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Beautiful, Difficult Choices, Pops

• Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tyrants, Choices, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

• If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident, I can't think of anything that would meet the definition of being self-evident.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Self, Choices

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