Thoughts and Quotes

When I posted the sentence “I don’t want to believe, I want to know” on my social media profiles, I was informed that it is by Carl Sagan. This, however, is an erroneous attribution. He never said or wrote it.

Quotations by Paulo Bittencourt (1/6)

Books Liberated from Religion and Wasting Time on God

1

“If it doesn’t extinguish natural catastrophes, diseases, violence, wars and famine, of what use is the belief in God?”

2

“There is no greater pleasure than to be a freethinker.”

3

“Feel free to address your prayers and supplications to me. It will have the same effect as addressing them to God — with the small difference that, if they reach me and it’s possible for me, I’ll try to help you.”

4

“Train up children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not be deceived by religions.”

5

“If God exists, it’s not necessary to believe in him, and if he doesn’t, even less so.”

6

“The existence of believers and nonbelievers is evidence of the nonexistence of God.”

7

“If Humanity can be saved and this Pale Blue Dot transformed into a really good place to live, at least without poverty and wars, then not by people who see life as worthless and spend it dreaming of mansions of gold in an imaginary world, but by people who don’t flee from reality and are guided not by primitive mythological beings, but by reason: freethinkers.”

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