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

Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

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.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

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.