Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

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.

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

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

I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.