At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

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.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.