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

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 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.

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars.

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

Accept everything just the way it is.

We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Music is everything to me. Without music, I wouldnt be here in America now, and I would have been a completely different person. It made me who I am today.