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Just Quotes by Julian Baggini
- 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…
- I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's…
- Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just…
More Just Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong