To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

J. Paul Getty, who still hasn't been buried - they keep finding oil! Never got a dinner!

If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.