"The greatest act of love is to tell the truth, even if it hurts."

"Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do."

"I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news for you at this level! I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understan…"

"I am a materialist. I believe in ghosts."

"There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took sla…"