It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.