It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.