Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.
A.C. GRAYLINGJust as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith – but I have it – to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
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To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason – to believe something by faith – is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.
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Inculcating the various competing – competing, note – falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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