To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.
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.
Freedom is the recognition of contingency.
What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.