“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.”

“That philosophy died yesterday, since Hegel or Marx, Nietzsche, or Heidegger—and philosophy should still wander toward the meaning of its death—or that it has always lived knowing itself to be dying... that philosophy died one day, within history, or that it has always fed on its own agony, on the violent way it opens history by opposing itself to nonphilosophy, which is its past and its concern, its death and wellspring; that beyond the death, or dying nature, of philosophy, perhaps even because of it, thought still has a future, or even, as is said today, is still entirely to come because of what philosophy has held in store; or, more strangely still, that the future itself has a future—all these are unanswerable questions. By right of birth, and for one time at least, these are problems put to philosophy as problems philosophy cannot resolve.”

“[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.”

“[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)”

“[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.”

“Instead there is a sense that life and death are connected, and that because the way you live is going to affect the way you die, the point of philosophy is to learn to die well.”