Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.