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. GRAYLINGI despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
More A.C. Grayling Quotes
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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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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
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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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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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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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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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Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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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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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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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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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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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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