There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions.

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.