Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
A.C. GRAYLINGThe media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
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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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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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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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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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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 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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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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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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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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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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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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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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