Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what you want to do and advocate for it, no one will put any energy into stopping you.

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.