From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

If you're not where you wanna be in your life, why you chilling so much?

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

Let us, with songs of praise, embrace the sacred year.

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

Everyone likes at least one Elvis song....Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star.