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You Quotes by Julian Baggini
- Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.
- There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
- There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.
- You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.
- Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you…
- If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with…
- It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present.…
- No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want…
- 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,…
- Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there…
- 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…
- The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first…
- True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and…
- 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…
- When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide