The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

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

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.