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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 104 quotes by Julian Baggini Julian Baggini (/bəˈɡiːni/; born 1968) is the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is the author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments (2005) and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosophers' Magazine. He was awarded his PhD in 1996 from University College London for a thesis on the philosophy of personal identity. He contributes to a variety of newspapers, magazines... Read full biography of Julian Baggini → 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ctrl → Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. 0 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... → 0 Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of... → 0 The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. 0 True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you... → 0 Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been... → 0 The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is.... → 0 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. 0 If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise... → 0 The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by... → 0 True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with... → 0 There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too. 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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