All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

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

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 world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

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

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.