Lunatic Asylums quotes

Lunatic Asylums

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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

"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."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Lunatic Asylums

"Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

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