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

"Our non-global conception of philosophy is rather a latecomer, while still establishing itself as the history of philosophy." 

"Everything has been sorted and segregated so that people of different political parties have no opportunities to engage one another."

"If you think of meaning simply in semantic, verbal terms, you’re missing out much of what goes on in language."

"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."

"When someone is lost in ideology, their politics appears natural, even scientific, and not historical and cultural."

"I try to show that civil disobedience emerged within a civil rights movement that was deeply in conversation with anti-colonial movements."

"The burden of philosophy is to provide the resources to tell ourselves stories so we can subject ourselves to self-scrutiny." 

"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?"

"A philosophical argument can draw on a set of culturally specific ideas while also aiming at cross-cultural or universal insights."

"Can an idea be ours without just being owned? Can the author survive the end of authorial authority?"