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I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

Julian Baggini

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Julian Baggini
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 9
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Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.
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I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
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Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
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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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The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
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The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.
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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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As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.
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It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim never say never is one of the most important in ethics.
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If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
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No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
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When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning, or changes for the worse.
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In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.
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Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.
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I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.
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