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. GRAYLINGIf 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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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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The 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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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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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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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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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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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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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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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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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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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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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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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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