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.
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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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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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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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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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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Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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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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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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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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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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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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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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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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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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…mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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