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.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

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.

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

I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences.

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

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