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.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

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

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

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.