We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we can believe in and the crushing realisation that nothing will change.

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.

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.

Every life will be better if God is at the center of it

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

Becoming an object of worship is to serve God for what you can get from him

A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.