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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.

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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Altering Depend Desire Experience Look People Science Tree
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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Cart Eccentric Little Live Modern Motorway Pedestrian Place Room Society Way
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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Age Broad Defined Middle Mind Narrow Place Waist
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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Human Life Lifespan Long Month Need Think Live Thinking Thousand Time
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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Dinner Table Good Guest Humanism Philosophy
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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Children Exist Human Intelligence Men Nature Product Two Unnatural
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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Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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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 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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Age Believe Exactly Fairies Goblin God Reason
The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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Failure Habit Mark Stereotype Wise World
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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Anxiety Hesitate Increase Lurid Media Order Sale Social Whip
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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Electricity House Lighting Prayer Trying Work
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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Fly Idea Ideas Over Reading Share Soar Terrain History Human View Views Vintage
Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Biggest Blogosphere Graffiti Lavatory Look Universe Wall
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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Happy Latest Misuse Night Religious Return Technology World

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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