It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder..

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life..

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by smal….

Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that….

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulne….

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits ….

People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however cl….

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them..

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young..

Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as….

Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you an….

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places..

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and ….

There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with r….

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance..

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it..

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or….

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration..

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liber….

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in th….

Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently ….