“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

“Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense.”

“...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it.”

“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.”

“The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.”

“The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.”