If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

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.

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.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

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