Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.

Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.

One does not see ‘what is there’ and sees ‘what is not there’, that is called moha (illusory vision).

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

They didn't guarantee you'd come out a whole person.

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.