Julian Baggini Quotes

My mode as a writer is to layer different perspectives: the scientific, the philosophical, the political, the journalistic. When you layer them, you get a really wholesome, interesting picture.

I take the best of all the styles I like and put them together in one package.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.

Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

He spent his whole life in plastering together the true and the false and therefrom extracting the plausible.

I approach the world as a whole by taking an integrative approach, not a world of parts, and I like to bring different fields and disciplines together. The same is true with my preoccupation with cultural expression.

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way I listen to music: put it all together, and it's a great party.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

I'm a hybrid.

Life mixes tones all the time.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.