“For all I know it does, it may, but that does not recommend it, to me, nor does it prove anything of its theology.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Authors@Google, August 16, 2007, YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs
2000s, 2007
Context: It is said that Louis Farrakhan’s racist crackpot Nation of Islam and its sectarian gang gets young men off drugs. For all I know it does, it may, but that does not recommend it, to me, nor does it prove anything of its theology. Whereas I can tell you that of the suicide bombing population one hundred percent is faith-based. And I don’t think that in itself disapproves faith, but I think it should make you skeptical of that kind of random sampling. Of the genital mutilation community the same can be said.

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British American author and journalist 1949–2011

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Cuanto sé no me sirve ni para saberlo.
Voces (1943)

“When I speak of All That Is, you must understand my position within it. All That Is knows no other. This does not mean that there may not be more to know. It does not mean, and here words quite fail us, it does not mean that All That Is, in any terms we can conceive of, may not be limited. It knows of no other.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Session 426, Page 25
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“On theory: "I don’t know any theory. Knowing the theory does not mean anything.”

Vangelis (1943) Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music

If we theoretically know what a human being is, but someone has never seen one, or if you have never had a relationship with a human being, you cannot know anything about human beings! I think that the best way to gain knowledge is through gaining experience and through connections... Look, if I approach an instrument theoretically, it will give me a theory, so therefore this will make cold music".
1979

“Who can know anything best of all
What does it mean to know anything best
Which religion doesn't grow old”

Ataol Behramoğlu (1942) Turkish writer

"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Context: I'd make me into a brand new sailor if I were God
Maybe there were new things over there
It comes from within me to write as though rabid, I'm hungry, do you understand
Let the doctors call it what they will
Who can know anything best of all
What does it mean to know anything best
Which religion doesn't grow old

“And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

X, 33
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X

“Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

No. 112
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“Nor does it impose silence on this sex which does not deserve to be despised.”

François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) French political agitator and journalist of the French Revolutionary period

N'impose pas non plus silence à ce sexe qui ne mérite pas qu'on le méprise.
[in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 44, 27082 2892-7]
On women

“For all I know it does, it may, but that does not recommend it, to me, nor does it prove anything of its theology.”

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