# Quote — Christopher Hitchens, And Yet

> Thus we learn again that what people set down day to day is of greater value than what they try to synthesize retrospectively into a grand sweep or theory.

- Author: [Christopher Hitchens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens.md)
- Book: [And Yet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet/thus-we-learn

## More from this book

> We are all drowning in filth. When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgment have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone’s thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a “case” with deliberate suppression of his opponent’s point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet/we-are-all.md)

> One test of un homme sérieux is that it is possible to learn from him even when one radically disagrees with him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet/one-test-of-un-homme.md)

> But it can be almost as objectionable to be made to take part in something as to be forbidden to do so.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/and-yet/but-it-can.md)