What Richard Dawkins thinks about happiness
Evolutionary biologist and author; writes The Poetry of Reality newsletter on Substack.
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4 dated positions, c. 2006 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Richard Dawkins has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut the remedy for loneliness is human fellowship, the warmth of real, live, flesh-and-blood companions and loved-ones; not prating in a vacuum to an imaginary friend for whose existence there is no vestige of serious evidence.
↗No Satisfying Alternative to Religion? Try Reality.richarddawkins.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThere is joy in understanding, true joy, rising to little short of ecstasy. I suppose you could call it the poetry of reality.
↗No Satisfying Alternative to Religion? Try Reality.richarddawkins.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsYou are prodigiously lucky to be alive. So please stifle your entitled moaning. Revel in your own existence.
↗No Satisfying Alternative to Religion? Try Reality.richarddawkins.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsYou can be an atheist who is happy, balanced, moral, and intellectually fulfilled.
↗The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)archive.org All 13 from this book