Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

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

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

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

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

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

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