"It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds…"

"It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public."

"Deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simpl…"

"Life is near-death experience."

"I think where people tend to end up results from a combination of encouragement, accident, and lucky break, etc. etc.…"

"This ideal University of Life … would never take the importance of culture for granted. It would know that culture is…"

"Socrates compared living without thinking systematically to practicing an activity like pottery or shoemaking without…"

"There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are."

"It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is."

"Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterica…"