The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?