Alternatives Quote by A.C. Grayling

“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”

A.C. Grayling

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“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.”

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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe…

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Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin,…

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