To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

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

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.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

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.

There is nothing to be known about anything except an initially large, and forever expandable, web of relations to other things. Everything that can serve as a term of relation can be dissolved into another set of relations, and so on for ever. There are, so to speak, relations all the way down, all the way up, and all the way out in every direction: you never reach something which is not just one more nexus of relations.