The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
A.C. GRAYLINGHumanism 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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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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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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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.
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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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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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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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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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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
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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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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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It doesn’t have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being – Everything is full of wonder.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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