A.C. Grayling Quotes

Lying That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. NIETZSCHE

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. THOMAS FULLER

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU

Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination, a positive attitude full of possibility and aspiration. For that reas...

Yet apes are intelligent, inquisitive, affectionate and sociable, with capacities for suffering and grief that match our own, and with a grave beauty and dignity which recalls Schopenhauer’s remark th...

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head. THOREAU

I to je zapravo sustina proslavljanja Dana sv. Valentina:san o ljubavi. Zivot bi zaista bio gorak kada se san nikada ne bi ostvario ili kada nasa najvaznija zivotna iskustva ljubavi - storge, pragma,...

We find little in a book but what we put there,’ Joseph Joubert said. ‘But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Implicit in the idea of degeneration from the best form of government, the aristocratic, is Plato’s claim that the members of the demos lack the knowledge and virtue of the aristoi, which is what make...

Hope If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice,’ wrote Montaigne; ‘we have no tie upon one another, other than the reliability of our word.

One frankness invites a reciprocal frankness, and draws forth discoveries, like wine and love,’ wrote Montaigne.

Racism is on its deathbed – the question is, how costly will racists make the funeral? MARTIN LUTHER KING

The world pullulates with profoundly unrespectable people, views and actions, at all levels and in all neighbourhoods, and PC's reflex tendency to attack most of those who attack many of them makes ma...

The meaning of things lies not in things themselves, but in out attitudes to them.’ ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Without free speech one cannot claim other liberties, or defend them when they are attacked. Without free speech one cannot have a democratic process, which requires the statement and testing of polic...

Obscenity’ is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means ‘anything that shocks the magistrate’. BERTRAND RUSSELL

There are several kinds of poverty. Third-and first-world poverty are entirely different in character because of the great difference in their historical and economic settings. The gruel-ling problems...

In the preface to his little book of miscellaneous essays called Guesses at Truth, the nineteenth-century cleric Julius Hare wrote, ‘I here present you with a few suggestions … little more than glimme...

Such melancholy is fitted to the fact that life offers causes for regret, that happiness is not always the point, and that there is enough hardship and struggle to go round, but not enough of the good...