415 definitions
Argument (n.) is judged like a drug: a valid, elegant one that changes no life is as useless as a fragrant medicine that cures nothing.
Cosmopolitanism (n.) is at its broadest and purest, a moral commitment to universal values.
Dialectic (n.) of the polite Aristotelian kind may be a strange alchemy: it sifts the diseased beliefs of the elite and calls the residue practical truth.
Emotion (n.) may be suffused with intelligence and discernment: if feelings reflect value judgements, they map how we assess the world.
Fortune (n.) has been beaten to the punch: we have fortified ourselves against your attacks, and when we must go, we will spit on life and leave with a song of triumph.
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Love (n.) is the one god that modern unbelievers still worship: people will give up the gods long before they stop making gods of one another.
Love (n.) now carries the whole weight of our longing for transcendence, poured into fragile human projects because the heavens are closed.
A Love story (n.) can swallow even its own critic: the harder the lover argues against love, the more his argument reads as one more episode of passion.
Luxury (n.) is a pot of cheese, Epicurus wrote: send me one, so I may feast whenever I like.
Martin Heidegger (n.) is anti-philosophical, anti-socratic in his teaching. He was an authority figure, and he fed people's desire to submit themselves to authority.