Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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.
More A.C. Grayling Quotes
-
-
Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
A.C. GRAYLING -
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. GRAYLING -
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
A.C. GRAYLING -
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
A.C. GRAYLING -
Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
A.C. GRAYLING -
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.
A.C. GRAYLING -
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.
A.C. GRAYLING -
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
A.C. GRAYLING -
Inculcating the various competing – competing, note – falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
A.C. GRAYLING -
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. GRAYLING -
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
A.C. GRAYLING -
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
A.C. GRAYLING -
…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
A.C. GRAYLING -
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.
A.C. GRAYLING -
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. GRAYLING