I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

God is a book I can no longer read.

The ultimate purpose of education is to improve the power of your imagination and to change your vision.

Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.