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

"Just as perception is not the enemy of reason despite its fallibility, neither is imagination."

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

"Philosophy at the service of the authority’s demands for deference and submission might not really be philosophy at all."

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

"Politics is that activity which is seen most clearly by the one who has no place."

"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?"

"When the category of possibility is in crisis, the intelligibility of collective action and cooperative life will be imperilled"

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

"The momentum of the pandemic has facilitated an important shift in the way many people think about wage labour, employment, and capitalism"

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