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Wisdom Is Not Just Knowing Fundamental Truths, If These Are Unconnected With The Guidance Of Life Or With A Perspective On Its Meaning. If The Deep Truths Physicists Describe About The Origin And Functioning Of The Universe Have Little Practical Import And Do Not Change Our Picture Of The Meaning Of The Universe And Our Place Within It, Then Knowing Them Would Not Count As Wisdom.

When I Was 15 Years Old, Or 16, I Carried Around On The Streets Of Brooklyn A Paperback Copy Of Plato's Republic, Front Cover Facing Outward. I Had Read Only Some Of It And Understood Less, But I Was Excited By It And Knew It Was Something Wonderful.

Utopia Is A Meta-utopia: The Environment In Which Utopian Experiments May Be Tried Out; The Environment In Which People Are Free To Do Their Own Thing; The Environment Which Must, To A Great Extent, Be Realized First If More Particular Utopian Visions Are To Be Realized Stably.

I Think Philosophers Can Do Things Akin To Theoretical Scientists, In That, Having Read About Empirical Data, They Too Can Think Of What Hypotheses And Theories Might Account For That Data. So There's A Continuity Between Philosophy And Science In That Way.

Our Principles Fix What Our Life Stands For, Our Aims Create The Light Our Life Is Bathed In, And Our Rationality, Both Individual And Coordinate, Defines And Symbolizes The Distance We Have Come From Mere Animality. It Is By These Means That Our Lives Come To More Than What They Instrumentally Yield. And By Meaning More, Our Lives Yield More.