Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions..

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people..

What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the bad things at bay. When you love somebod….

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to stu….

So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where w….

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems….

To matter ... Is there any human will deeper than that? ... We don't want to live when we become convinced that we don't, can't, will never matter. .….

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our….

One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our conc….

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the ins….

I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all..

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die..

When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occu….

And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another opt….

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young..

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects….

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible b….

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argument….

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else..

Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying..

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied..