“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

“My story is very boring. Mostly about hair loss.”

“Teaching, good teaching, is a remarkable gift which I highly revere. One of the saddest things that has happened to education, I feel, is the loss of respect and honor once given to educators as professionals…”

“Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.”

“If somebody asks them, Why, what evil does he practice or teach? they do not know, and cannot tell; but in order that they do not appear to be at a loss, they repeat the ready-made charges which are used against all philosophers about teaching things up in the clouds and under the earth, and having no gods, and making the worse appear the better cause; for they do not like to confess that their pretense of knowledge has been detected — which is the truth…”

“Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.”

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

“The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”

“The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.”

“One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.”