The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues.

Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.