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From Quotes by Julian Baggini
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It…
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