What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the bad things at bay. When you love somebody you want that as much for them if not more than you do for yourself.

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.

One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he focused, the orientation he brought to bear on his focus, has some causal connection to the circumstances of his life.