If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

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.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

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?