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

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

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

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

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.

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.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.