Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.