We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.” P. 38-39

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.