All A.C. Grayling Quotes
- 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… Another Human
- Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends. Certainty
- Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young. Atheism
- I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree. Altering
- 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… Believe
- A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it. Human
- The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world, Failure
- The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears. Anxieties
- 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… Life
- Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance. Ancestor
- Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. Dinner
- 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… Adherence
- 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… Count
- Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration. Biggest
- To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits… Believe
- 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… Aggressive
- 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… Automatically
- Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works. Electricity
- 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… Age
- 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… Attempt
- 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… Action
- I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head. Apple
- If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end. Anything Worth
- 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… Alternative
- It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come… Believe