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

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

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.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

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