"Han implies that philosophy is not for professional philosophers but for everyone, so that we can better understand our exhausting times."

"For restorative justice to work, the perpetrators’ delusions, entitlement, rationalizations, and smearing of victims must stop."

"What sort of selves do literary works create? More broadly still, what kinds of selves does any manner of artwork create?"

"The more we affect and are affected by others, the more we can perceive and understand the plurality of other human lives and experiences."

"Comedic happiness, initiated through surprise and propelled by laughter, must constitute an act of subversion."

"Our habitual ways of speaking and thinking can seem inadequate to the task of expressing the reality of being human."

"Absurdity, most generally, consists in a disparity between our expectations or pretentions and reality."

"Trust has value in itself because it is an expression of our agency, even of what we might call our personhood."

"I want to be able to condemn the structural conditions of my exploitation without condemning the person I ended up becoming as a result."

"if philosophical pessimism is to be seen as something more than a 'mere' temperament or attitude, what might this be?"

"We can perhaps summarise the philosophical problem of contemporary punishment outlined above as: it doesn’t work, and yet we need it."

"Home is our anchor point within reality which gives us orientation and allows us to set out in new directions."

"The emphasis on immediate economic returns overlooks the long-term societal benefits of a populace well-versed in philosophical reasoning"

"The dialectical link between our scholarly and civic activities implies that the future of public philosophy lies in the universities."

"Do we accept our servitude, recognizing that all attempts to overcome it end in futility, or seek to abolish it in an act of self-erasure?"

"What makes someone especially good at philosophy, argues Midgley, is a kind of perceptiveness, a power to distinguish what really matters."

"By questioning the default story form, we question the default views on what kinds of lives we’ve been trained to find satisfying."

"The admiration that effortlessness invokes comes from a skill that lies beyond skill, which is achieved through mental emptiness."

"If academics want to increase uptake and funding, it seems plausible to suggest they must do something that is publicly interesting."

"Arguably, the function of the modern concept of race was to rationalize forms of oppression and subjugation like chattel slavery."