Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."

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.

achieving me is like turning your black money into white :')

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

my talent is my pride

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

As long as you work in a color palette and you style what you already have within that color palette, it's going to look good together.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

I guess you're only as good as the waves.

I'm a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.