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.
A.C. GRAYLINGTry lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
More A.C. Grayling Quotes
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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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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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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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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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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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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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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 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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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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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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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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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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