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Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.
Julian Baggini
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Julian Baggini
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 9
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This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols but we also want egalitarianism and that requires proclamations of humility from our Gods.
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Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.
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We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.
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The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.
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Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
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Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
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Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.
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Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.
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Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
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Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.
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Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.
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Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.
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The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
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You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.
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Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.
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