Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.