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- 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…
- 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.
- Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
- If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics…
- In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.
- Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.
- Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work…
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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