Best Julian Baggini Quotations
- Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with… Better
- Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration,… Battle
- From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human… Activity
- Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they… Any
- I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction,… Absolute
- I never thought I was cut out for a life of crime. I even felt guilty when I accidentally stole a Subbuteo catalogue, thinking it… Accidentally
- If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about… Animal
- If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al,… Al
- If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination.… All
- Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here… Aware
- Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to… Believe
- No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and… Abiding
- On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel… Choose
- One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and… Anger
- People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford… Afford
- Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on… Acceptance
- Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of… Ancient
- Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation,… Changed
- The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and… Accept
- The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly… Abilities
- The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of… Boundaries
- The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing… All
- The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world… Alternatives
- The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation.… Acceptable
- This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want… Accept
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