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Julian Baggini Quotes

British - Author | 1968 -

It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.

Life Live Suffering Appreciate You

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Opportunity Best Job Suffering Learn

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

You Wrong Always Disagree Too Thing

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

Believe You Serious Right Deal Make

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

Good Religion Questions Answers Had

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.

Religion View You Skin Understand

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.

Control Networking Feel Giving Data

If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.

World Care End Priorities Doing

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

Work Great Anger Boss Present Place

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

Morality Emotion Without Seems Even

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.

Losing Cool End Meaning You Down

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

Positive Good Anger Negative Bad

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