Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness. How did you make th…

- Colin Mcginn

Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full f…

- Colin Mcginn

Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious e…

- Colin Mcginn

Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important…

- Colin Mcginn

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

- Colin Mcginn

To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.

- Colin Mcginn

Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be or…

- Colin Mcginn

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response …

- Colin Mcginn

It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another…

- Colin Mcginn