In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.