Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.