Best Julian Baggini Quotes
- Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept… Accept
- Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance.… Cold
- No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want… Arbitrary
- People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of… Discernment
- Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune,… Believe
- Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are… Bad
- Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule… Advance
- The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are… All
- The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be… Accepting
- The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that… Amount
- The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did… Angel
- Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike… All
- True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not… Accrue
- We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making… Bad
- Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there… Believe
- You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to… Argue
- The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. Condemn
- 'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is… Choose
- Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that… Choose
- Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of… Accepted
- Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. Any
- I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive. Anyone
- The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down… Aloft
- Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best… All
- Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of… Accepting
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