All Julian Baggini Quotes
- Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism… Accepting
- Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him. Entirely
- I am only me for practical purposes. Inspirational
- Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. .… Academic
- Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no… Agree
- Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us… Bad
- Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you. All
- Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones. Firings
- No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both… Awe
- Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. Both
- 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 elsewhere. Elsewhere
- There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife! Example
- There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too. Always Wrong
- Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions. Entails
- You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe. Believe
- Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just… Absent
- Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that… Atheist
- Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are… Able
- Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you… Believer
- Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science… Action