Philosophy Is Everybody's Business.

The Ability To Retain A Child's View Of The World With At The Same Time A Mature Understanding Of What It Means To Retain It, Is Extremely Rare - And A Person Who Has These Qualities Is Likely To Be Able To Contribute Something Really Important To Our Thinking.

Television, Radio, And All The Sources Of Amusement And Information That Surround Us In Our Daily Lives Are Also Artificial Props. They Can Give Us The Impression That Our Minds Are Active, Because We Are Required To React To Stimuli From The Outside. But The Power Of Those External Stimuli To Keep Us Going Is Limited. They Are Like Drugs. We Grow Used To Them, And We Continuously Need More And More Of Them. Eventually, They Have Little Or No Effect. Then, If We Lack Resources Within Ourselves, We Cease To Grow Intellectually, Morally, And Spiritually. And We We Cease To Grow, We Begin To Die.

... The Person Who, At Any Stage Of A Conversation, Disagrees, Should At Least Hope To Reach Agreement In The End. He Should Be As Much Prepared To Have His Own Mind Changed As Seek To Change The Mind Of Another ... No One Who Looks Upon Disagreement As An Occasion For Teaching Another Should Forget That It Is Also An Occasion For Being Taught.

It's Not How Many Books You Get Through, It's How Many Books Get Through You.

The Tragedy Of Being Both Rational And Animal Seems To Consist In Having To Choose Between Duty And Desire Rather Than In Making Any Particular Choice