National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

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

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.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.