When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and …

- George Pattison

I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nih…

- George Pattison

At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in the…

- George Pattison

Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions as to how far our Eckh…

- George Pattison

Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certai…

- George Pattison

Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and e…

- George Pattison

I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as the charact…

- George Pattison

I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a quest…

- George Pattison

One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, …

- George Pattison