“Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.”

English philosopher and journalist

Julian Baggini is an English philosopher, journalist, and writer. He is known for writing about philosophy for a general audience, and for co-founding The Philosophers' Magazine. He has written more than 20 books on philosophy, as well as works on atheism, secularism, and national identity. He has also contributed to newspapers and magazines, and serves as a patron of Humanists UK, which promotes secular humanism.