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
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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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.
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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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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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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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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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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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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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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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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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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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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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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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