"The problem of Enlightenment is not merely discovery of the truth but the conflict between the truth and the beliefs …"

"Swift objects to Enlightenment because it encourages a hypertrophic development of mathematics, physics and astronomy…"

"Enlightenment presented the thinker not as the best man but as the most useful one. Happiness is the most important t…"

"How can we talk about the system born of the Enlightenment as the best of all possible worlds, when we all know that …"

"Thought is reified as an autonomous, automatic process, aping the machine it has itself produced, so that it can fina…"

"The Continental Enlightenment was impatient for the perfected state – which led to intellectual dogmatism, political …"

"... Science arose to prominence immediately prior to the Enlightenment—as would be expected if, indeed, science was t…"

"Enlightenment rationalism, to the extent that its program is taken seriously, is an engine of perpetual revolution, w…"

"Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, and Kant never had children. Descartes's only daughter, born outside of marriage, died at the…"

"Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the me…"