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Us 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…
- Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. .…
- 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…
- 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.
- Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are…
- The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages…
- We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time…
- When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong