That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.