"Right and wrong are not simply matters of……" — Julian Baggini
"Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural."
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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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More Evolutionary Quotes
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you…
— David Attenborough
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how…
— Margaret Atwood
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources…
— Buzz Aldrin
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is…
— Shriram Sharma
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The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of…
— Ray Lankester
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really…
— Seth Shostak
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Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there…
— Timothy Leary
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what…
— Candace Pert
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
— Douglas MacArthur
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