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.

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.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

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

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.

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?