We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Dream the impossible.See the impossible.Pursue the impossible.Achieve the impossible.

Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

My journal is my life's companion.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.