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Another problem with people who fail to examine themselves is that they often prove all too easily influenced.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

What are people actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are available to them?

Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.

You can't really change the heart without telling a story.

Nudity quickly becomes unremarkable when generally practiced.