24 Quotes by Kwame Anthony Appiah

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question ‘‘Did the professor respect you?

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.

Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another.

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.

If someone hates you, they won’t ask you for things.

The phrase ‘academic freedom’ is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.