151 Quotes by Julian Baggini

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.

We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.