“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”

“A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims truths.”

“The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.”

“[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes...(The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.)”

“When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.”

“To philosophize means to make vivid.”