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

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

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

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

Hate is a powerful emotion. It can take over a sane man's mind and cloud it with insanity.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.

I'm a naughty sweetheart.

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.

I turned from my wicked ways and embraced Jesus. The next thing I knew, good times had come my way.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.