To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.