Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no … - Rebecca Goldstein

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Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

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Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

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Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the geniuses.

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Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

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To matter, to mind. . . . What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. . . . Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

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Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

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Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

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