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“There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!” quote by Julian Baggini — Download Open image

“There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!”

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I don't think there is ever a direct connection between the philosophical community and the wider populus. I'm very aware of this because I've been working on a book on ideas in global philosophy and you always find some kind of relation between the dominant philosophies in a culture and the folk philosophy but it's not a straight-down dissemination. It's…

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Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is…

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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…

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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…

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We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.

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It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in…

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I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am an absolute…

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“Working out whether or not the claims you make in your premises are true, while important, is simply not enough to ensure that you draw true conclusions. People make this mistake all the time. They forget that you can begin with a set of entirely true beliefs but reason so poorly as to end up with entirely false conclusions. The…

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Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed.…

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“Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.”

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Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging…

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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…

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The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,…

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