For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

Is the any model like morality?

fall in lovewith your solitude

600Christmas is about giving from the heart more than giving from the store.

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.

I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

A lot of times when I say I didn't do anything I was actually in Miami doing a show.

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.