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.

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

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.

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.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.

It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.