I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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.
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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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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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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.
A.C. GRAYLINGInculcating 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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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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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.
A.C. GRAYLINGI 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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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?
A.C. GRAYLINGWhen 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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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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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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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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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
A.C. GRAYLINGTry lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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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.
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.
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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.
A.C. GRAYLINGA 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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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. GRAYLINGMisuse 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.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
A.C. GRAYLINGReligion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
A.C. GRAYLINGMiddle 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.
A.C. GRAYLINGThe wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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