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• The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
• Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe…
• What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
• My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global…
• Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all…
• Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
• Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
• To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a…
• My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...…
• Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation…
• If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what…
• The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

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