It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror