A.C. Grayling Quotes

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• It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything…
• Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
• Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
• I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
• I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to…
• A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
• The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
• The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
• And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to…
• Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
• Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
• Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently…
• Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always…
• Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
• To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits…
• Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were…
• 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…
• Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
• I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there…
• 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…

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