Author: Julian Baggini

Quotes

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

- Julian Baggini

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

- Julian Baggini

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

- Julian Baggini

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

- Julian Baggini

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

- Julian Baggini

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

- Julian Baggini

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

- Julian Baggini

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