Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as… — 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 Image
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or… — 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 [ On Evil ] as in others of his recent 'late period' prolific burst) anxious to rewrite theology: God (whom he elsewhere tells us is nonexistent, but this is no barrier to his being lots of other… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share
