Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

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

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