"Depressing as it might seem, misanthropy does register a fundamental truth about humankind as it has come to be."

"Whatever else the history of philosophy is, it is the history of the tensions between philosophy’s public-facing and scholastic tendencies"

"To live in hopeless times is not only subjectively to feel hopeless. It is for that feeling in a real way to reflect the way things are."

"In a world on fire, is there time for disobedience?"