I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

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.

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.

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

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.