In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a c…

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete s…

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art that speaks f…

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

I believe there are universal moral values - some of which are very well served by a cosmopolitan attitude. You can think that there are universal va…

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

Cosmopolitans begin, I think, with a sense of one thing we all certainly share, which is our fallibility. Nobody has reason to be confident that they…

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality and difference. Many people who believe rightly in universality, …

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions …

- Kwame Anthony Appiah