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 …

- A.C. Grayling

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

- A.C. Grayling

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

- A.C. Grayling

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…

- A.C. Grayling

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

- A.C. Grayling

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

- A.C. Grayling

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

- A.C. Grayling

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…

- A.C. Grayling

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

- A.C. Grayling