An untimely question is a question that comes at the wrong time—namely, after it has been answered.

When philosophical questions can be reformulated as problems, that is when they leave the orbit of philosophy.

Open-mindedness is paradoxical because it requires a person to be willing to admit that she is wrong—which,

anger is that anger is fundamentally directed at the wrongdoer, on the grounds that the wrongdoing indicates a failure to give a shared answer.

A command answers the question “What should I do?” when no one asked it.

are being blown back and forth between an impulse whose best available rational articulation takes a calculative form, and an impulse whose best available rational articulation takes a legalistic form.

The Meno marks the opening of thousands of years of philosophical inquiry into the special “Aha!” character of the kind of knowledge that Socrates claims we can recollect from our pre-lives.

This is thinking. It is completed when one arrives at an answer that is perfectly stable.

What makes a question untimely is precisely that it comes to us already answered.