In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

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.

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

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.

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

These women, these Shark Tank Mompreneurs are so passionate about what they created and what they are doing, and that just shines through. That's a major reason why they nailed their audition.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

I love a strong brow and ChapStick with glowing skin and messy hair. I'm a minimalist at heart.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.