Julian Baggini

I don't think there is ever a direct connection between the philosophical community and the wider populus. I'm very aware of this…

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with…

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

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

— Julian Baggini

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand…

— Julian Baggini

“2.1 Abduction No, we’re not talking about kidnapping but, rather, an important dimension of scientific and ordinary as well as philosophical rationality.…

— Julian Baggini

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

— Julian Baggini

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to…

— Julian Baggini

People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no…

— Julian Baggini

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher…

— Julian Baggini

Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing.…

— Julian Baggini

I am only me for practical purposes.

— Julian Baggini

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that…

— Julian Baggini

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing,…

— Julian Baggini