Kwame Anthony Appiah Quotes

If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things.

A value is like a fax machine: it's not much use if you're the only one who has one.

(And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)

To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.

Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another

The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question 'Did the professor respect you?

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing