“Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attemp...” — Julian Baggini Quote

“Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all.”

“We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.”

“Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.”

“If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.”

“If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.”

“Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.”

“Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.”

“When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.”

“I don't want to be a reasonable facsimile of anyone.”

“You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.”

“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

“What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.”