A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.