What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

We shall find true happiness once you have learnt to accept your loneliness.

A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.’ - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

I just think we've had years and years of allowing our jobs to be dissipated in America, and there's no reason for it.

Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot of sense to us, they might to someone else. Who are we to say?

You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.

Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.