For all we know, we know nothing.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'