It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.

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

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.

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.

Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.

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

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

That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

You always knew when Seve walked in a room even if you had your back to him. He oozed charisma and brought a whole new meaning to aura.

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

There is nothing serious in Mortality