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Only Quotes by Julian Baggini
- I am only me for practical purposes.
- Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us…
- Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
- The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really…
- The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
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- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle