151 Quotes by Julian Baggini

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.