For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

"The whole world loves a lover" is an interesting theory but a very bad legal defense.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.