The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.