Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.
A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.
Nuance doesn't get retweeted.
Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.
In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.
You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.
On the field I defend our colours, love our flag and sing our anthem. I could not be more Italian than I am now.