151 Quotes by Julian Baggini

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.