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

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.

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

According to Heidegger, the blind desire for manipulation [of nature] came about because modernity turned reason—which was, for the ancients, and even for the medievals, a source of valuable goals—into a purely instrumental faculty.