In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

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

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes these failed solutions are scientific, and sometimes they are religious, and sometimes they are based on what is called plain common sense.

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