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. GRAYLINGThe wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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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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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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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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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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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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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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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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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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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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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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Inculcating 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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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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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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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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