Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition