“If we pretend or imagine that life’s purpose lies outside living itself, we will be searching the stars for what is underneath our feet all the time.”
~ Julian Baggini / Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
Julian Baggini on Immortality
“Our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can endure longer than people has led some to seek a form of proxy-immortality through it. If we accept that art is mortal too, and that nothing is truly permanent, maybe we can see more clearly where the value of art and life is to be found – in experiencing them.”
~ Julian Baggini / The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
Julian Baggini on Wrongdoing
“Judas sees he has done wrong and condemns himself…The price of ‘sin’ is not that you will be sent to hell by a divine judge or that karmic forces will ensure you’re paid back. The price of being bad is that you have to live with being the person who did wrong”
~ Julian Baggini / The Godless Gospel