Philosophy Makes Progress Not By Becoming More

To Say That Truth Is Not Out There Is Simply To Say That Where There Are No Sentences There Is No Truth, That Sentences Are Elements Of Human Languages, And That Languages Are Human Creations.~ The Suggestion That Truth~ Is Out There Is A Legacy Of An Age In Which The World Was Seen As The Creation Of A Being Who Had A Language His Own.

You Read The Pragmatists And All You Know Is: Not Descartes, Not Kant, Not Plato. It's Like Aspirin. You Can't Use Aspirin To Give Yourself Power, You Take It To Get Rid Of Headaches. In That Way, Pragmatism Is A Philosophical Therapy. It Helps You Stop Asking The Unhelpful Questions.

At 12, I Knew That The Point Of Being Human Was To Spend One's Life Fighting Social Injustice.

The Difference Between People And Ideas Is... Only Superficial.

National Pride Is To Countries What Self-respect Is To Individuals: A Necessary Condition For Self-improvement.