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

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.

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.

That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.

A time past is an essence gone

Wrong Turn 1 and 2 are pretty interesting films, but they need little more work on special effects!

Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself, ' said Gabriel.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

I have to take my shoes off, you guys.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.