I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.

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.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.