"If there's one thing that makes me cynical,……" — Julian Baggini
"If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two."
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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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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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