Truth

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the relation of the individual to the world is the religion of reason.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Philosophy is spirit's longing to know itself.

What is at stake in the interrogation of reality is reality itself.

Science is implicated in the process of reality degradation and breakdown of sense.

The autonomy of the impersonal is manifest in the necessity it imposes on genuine thought to rise to the life of alien truths.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but an inescapable consequence of disclosure, a complex of conceptual pressures responsive to a variety of intellectual, cultural, moral, and existential imperatives.

Philosophy is concerned with encountering the most alien and impersonal truths.

A philosopher is a person who is always inquisitive, not content, always seeking the truth.

The presence of what is not and the absence of what is are both the beginning of wisdom.

History's honest. Someone give me lessons in historiography!

I don't care that much for people who have lived in fear of what the press are going to say about them.

You should never meet your heroes, because your heroes are all broken.

I'm not a person who believes that everything happens for a reason.

You assume, you have to assume, you are being gaslighted.

The world is wrong.

Trying to get the world right in a story is better than trying to get the world right any other way.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.