To study the art of living is to engage in one of its forms. - Alexander Nehamas

All we are now concerned with is the search for “new and improved” version of whatever means are already available for attaining goals such means make possible. The value of the goals themselves is irrelevant … What counts is doing things better than before. Whether such things are worth doing in the first place is no longer a question.

Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.

For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.