Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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