All A.C. Grayling Quotes
- 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
- Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too… Carts
- Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to… Effect
- Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places. Age
- To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety,… Experience
- ...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life. Emotion
- People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is… Apart