Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

"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.

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.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

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

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