"Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion;……" — Julian Baggini
"Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative."
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110 Quotes by Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini has 110 quotes on this site.
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Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as…
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Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.
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I am only me for practical purposes.
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Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days…
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Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer…
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Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and…
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Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.
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Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
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No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to…
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Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
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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,…
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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!
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
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