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

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

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

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

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

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.