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Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini
British Author
Born: 1968
About Good Life People Which You
Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. Julian Baggini
Worse Moral Something Failing Judgmental Greatest Condemn Than Being Vice
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered. Julian Baggini
Those Bothered Know Leftovers Either Them Who Wasteful
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something. Julian Baggini
Waiting Phones Google Seconds Our Out Something Check Messages Unusual Without Queue Getting Us Stand Many
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. Julian Baggini
Family Meal Guests Hospitality Generous Invited Occasion Friends Celebration Any Which Should
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. Julian Baggini
You Suffering World Whatever Believe Universe Benign Religious Some Point Misery Misfortune Forces Governed Explain Much Persuasion Your Why
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different. Julian Baggini
Life Few Easily Could Had Been Few Things Just Different Which Realities Full Many Things
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable. Julian Baggini
Mind Healthy Live Mark Virtue Indeed Ability More Only Uncertainty Facts Clear Mere Terms Ambiguity Mature Precise Psychologically Much Really Applicable
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. Julian Baggini
You Emotions Losing Try Down Changes Worse Neither Emotion Tends Hot Without Altogether Loses End Up Interaction Happen Either Social Them Meaning Much Social Interaction Cool Desirable
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all. Julian Baggini
Science Money Matter Economics Action Uncertain Because Subject Subject Matter Human Dismal Fundamental Why
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else. Julian Baggini
Pure Lost Else Everything Everything Else Philosophy Ancient Some Recovered Idea Most Mixed Up Greek Model Essence Impure Being Engaged
Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long. Julian Baggini
Science Culture Physics Long Changed Way Range Possibilities Staying Habit Remain Never Observation Because Within Quantum Limited Quantum Physics Nasty However Falls Very Same Human Being Where Which Regular Interferes Works Even Phenomena Phenomenon
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue. Julian Baggini
Thought Assumptions Once Habits Lazy Put Spotlight Hue Up Different Shown
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions. Julian Baggini
Life Good Values Good Life Our Entails About Scientific Wellbeing Ultimately Questions Notion
Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too. Julian Baggini
Religion You Skin Too Say Stay Objective Properly More Take Understand Get Cannot View Fully They Say Believers Right Need
On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data. Julian Baggini
Giving Control Ourselves Data Networking Feel Wrongly Sites May Often Social Choose Expose Away
The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities. Julian Baggini
Natural Mind Become Increasingly Our Pressing Intriguing Ability More Develop Idea Bound Beyond Body Even Extend Technologies
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process. Julian Baggini
Cooking Duty Other Lighten Longer Housewife End Rewarding Dishwasher Process Choice Load
Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists. Julian Baggini
News Fear Yesterday Benefit Our Asylum Neighbours Bad Seekers More Feeds Likely Terrorists Than Eggs Bogus
Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you. Julian Baggini
You Justice All The Facts Only Facts Front
Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed. Julian Baggini
Good Justice Compassion Neighbour About Being Which
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. Julian Baggini
Needs Justice Heart Compassion Society Civilised Both Head
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. Julian Baggini
Christmas Buy Experience Year Spending Months Those Fuss Eat About Generally Make Where Want Biggest Much Who
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives. Julian Baggini
Good You World Better Sense Philosophical Embrace Good Reason Only True Alternatives Makes Least Than Convinced Reason Position
Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality. Julian Baggini
Happiness Quality Will Value First Whatever Appropriate Seek Follows More True Quantity Importantly Then
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument. Julian Baggini
Faith Acceptance Argument Nothing Philosophy Take Blind Methods Truths Authority Establishing Reason Based
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere. Julian Baggini
Home History Problems Live Elsewhere Philosophical Philosophy About Feel Leave Issues Up Taught Us Many Grow Grow Up
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