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

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

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

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

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