We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

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.

Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.

Give me freedom to think and I'll give you my life.

You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda.

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.