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.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

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

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

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

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.