Julian Baggini Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Julian Baggini quotes and sayings page 6 (author). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 103 we have.
“In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.”
“To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.”
“Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.”
“Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.”
“Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.”
“I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.”
“The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.”
“When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.”
“Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.”
“Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.”
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