"It is as if philosophers are blind to their own being-placed; unable to recognise the place in which their thinking originates and by which it is sustained."

"At their best, Cioran’s aphorisms deftly puncture the narcissistic self-regard of a species who would reduce all the world to a vanity mirror."

"Chess speaks of the dream of reason to master fate."

Leo Zaibert reviews Gregg D. Caruso's "Rejecting Retributivism" with response by Gregg D. Caruso

"When we think, we 'withdraw' from the world of appearances, in order to make present to the mind what is absent from the senses."

"Universities ought not to shy away from the fact that they are in the business of radically making and remaking epistemic and political subjects."

"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."

"For Plato, true knowledge of the form of the good, attained by the few, must overrule the differing opinions of democratic debate."