There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed.

I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of 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.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

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