Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

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.

Its our choice as to what type of day we will have good or bad.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos.

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

Love's all in all to women.

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

Im a pretty organised traveller.

Getting reelected is the most important job every senator thinks he has.