Julian Baggini Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.

  Julian Baggini

  Believe, People, Life Is

  "Why all deaths are not equal" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

• Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

  Julian Baggini

  Good Life, Notion, Wellbeing

  "Can happiness be measured?". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

• Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Being tone deaf to religion does matter" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2012.

• 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

  Quality, Firsts, Quantity

• Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Heaven, Body

  "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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