Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true, inner selves and the outside world is pervasive, but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.