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Julian Baggini Quotes

I don’t think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive Picture Quote #1

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality Picture Quote #1

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental Picture Quote #1

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow Picture Quote #1

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives Picture Quote #1

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you’re wrong too Picture Quote #1

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When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse Picture Quote #1

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 elsewhere Picture Quote #1

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised Picture Quote #1

$No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science Picture Quote #1$

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones Picture Quote #1

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them Picture Quote #1

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To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel Picture Quote #1

This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don’t accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods Picture Quote #1

You don’t choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe Picture Quote #1

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up Picture Quote #1

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think Picture Quote #1

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities Picture Quote #1

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The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on Picture Quote #1

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument Picture Quote #1

People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers Picture Quote #1

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data Picture Quote #1

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us Picture Quote #1

Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive (Julian Baggini Quotes) Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality (Julian Baggini Quotes) The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental (Julian Baggini Quotes) You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow (Julian Baggini Quotes) The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives (Julian Baggini Quotes) There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you’re wrong too (Julian Baggini Quotes) When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse (Julian Baggini Quotes) 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 elsewhere (Julian Baggini Quotes) Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised (Julian Baggini Quotes) No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science (Julian Baggini Quotes) Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones (Julian Baggini Quotes) Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them (Julian Baggini Quotes) To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel (Julian Baggini Quotes) This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don’t accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods (Julian Baggini Quotes) You don’t choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe (Julian Baggini Quotes) The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up (Julian Baggini Quotes) The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think (Julian Baggini Quotes) The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities (Julian Baggini Quotes) The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on (Julian Baggini Quotes) Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument (Julian Baggini Quotes) People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers (Julian Baggini Quotes) On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data (Julian Baggini Quotes) Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us (Julian Baggini Quotes) Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth (Julian Baggini Quotes)

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