Truth Quotes by Julian Baggini

9 Truth quotes by Julian Baggini

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Baggini’s nine lines deliver a rapid, clear‑minded look at honesty, ideal for a quick intellectual sip.

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Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of…

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I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

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Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased…

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I just think that the skepticism about truth has almost completely flipped - from being something associated with generally left-leaning progressives to…

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Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition…

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Whatever the truth is about the extent to which truth is respected in the future, it is going to depend partly on…

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Once Steve Fuller said that there is this idea that your responsibility as an intellectual is just to speak the truth as…

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There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good…

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Talking about creating truth tends to alarm people, because truth is meant to be 'just out there'. It doesn't take much thinking…

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Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is…

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I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live…

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We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.

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It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in…

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I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am an absolute…

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“Working out whether or not the claims you make in your premises are true, while important, is simply not enough to ensure that you…

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Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed.…

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“Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.”

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Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging…

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If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal…

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“You know what a word means when you know how to use it, not what its definition is. That is why we can understand…

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Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is…

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“the meaning of life is not some kind of answer, which, once learned, is forever possessed. For life to stay meaningful it must continue…

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