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If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.
— Julian Baggini
Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.
— Julian Baggini
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
— Julian Baggini
Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.
— Julian Baggini
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
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
— Julian Baggini
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
— Julian Baggini
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
— Julian Baggini
Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.
— Julian Baggini
Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.
— Julian Baggini
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
— Julian Baggini
The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.
— Julian Baggini
You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.
— Julian Baggini
'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.
— Julian Baggini
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
— Julian Baggini
Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.
— Julian Baggini
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
— Julian Baggini
No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.
— Julian Baggini
I am only me for practical purposes.
— Julian Baggini
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
— Julian Baggini
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
— Julian Baggini
Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.
— Julian Baggini
As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.
— Julian Baggini
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
— Julian Baggini
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
— Julian Baggini
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
— Julian Baggini
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
— Julian Baggini
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
— Julian Baggini
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
— Julian Baggini
The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.
— Julian Baggini
There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.
— Julian Baggini
We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.
— Julian Baggini
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
