Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we're not as special as we always think we are.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.