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

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

"We must ask what it means to do philosophy when we expect that the next generation will be worse off, in many ways, than our generation."

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