A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it. — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Such melancholy is fitted to the fact that life offers causes for regret, that happiness is not always the point, and that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“I to je zapravo sustina proslavljanja Dana sv. Valentina:san o ljubavi. Zivot bi zaista bio gorak kada se san nikada ne bi ostvario ili… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party.… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
“The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this book [… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
“Hatred is a sentiment that leads to the extinction of values. ORTEGA Y GASSET” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation.… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
