The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.

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.

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shapeof a helicopter the same size as the helicopterand that's it's only skilland it isn't good enoughbut it's still amazing.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.