#t

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #metaphor #mind #other #scripture

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#me #much #remain #true #will

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#die #every #every day #everyone #go

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #become #cancer #died #father

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#concept #continually #exile #loneliness #me

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dead #elected #favorite #haven #i

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #colony #disprove #dumping #either

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#around #being #consciousness #determines #ever

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#commandments #dictation #get #getting #good

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#enough #fool #newspapers #only #president