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Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the world could be neatly divided up into evil people ...

Evil and the Justice of God

I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process ...

On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediari...

From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset...

The Lost World

The world is changing because we're changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I'd like to be. A person can seek ways, whether big or small, to heal the world. That, to me, is spirituality and one's 'soul.' Not some dise...

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Science has marched forward. But civilization’s values remain rooted in philosophies, religious traditions, and ethical frameworks devised many centuries ago. Even our economic system, capitalism, is half a millennium old. The first stock exchange ...

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

Capital

As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.

Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

Destination Eden

There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.

The Dosadi Experiment

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

Everyone Burns

Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance; Annie Wright's stroke.

Empathy

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Eleven Minutes

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

Encounter

The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to high.

Elysian Dreams: Where the Past Meets the Present

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

A Familiar Rain

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

The Grooming of Alice

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

The God Delusion