"From time to time, it is worth wandering……" — Julian Baggini
"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 activity is an island."
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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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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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