"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.

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

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.

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.

You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.

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

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.