To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.
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
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
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
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that…
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young. - A.C. Grayling
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
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
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…
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. - A.C. Grayling
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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
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.C. Grayling
Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
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
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…
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