There is nothing to be known about anything except an initially large, and forever expandable, web of relations to other things. Everything that can serve as a term of relation can be dissolved into another set of relations, and so on for ever. There are, so to speak, relations all the way down, all the way up, and all the way out in every direction: you never reach something which is not just one more nexus of relations.

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.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

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.

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?