"(J. L. Austin's) admirers claim that his supreme preoccupation was truth. His work, with its sad conjunction of extra…"

"Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own."

"What are the motives of those who wish to endorse all cultures? A part of their motive is, no doubt, a kind of univer…"

"Wittgenstein's appeal lies in the fact that he provides a strange kind of vindication of romanticism, of conceptual G…"

"When knowledge is the slave of social considerations, it defines a special class; when it serves its own ends only, i…"

"It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round."

"[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism."

"Knowledge which ... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an …"

"It is this which explains nationalism: the principle — so strange and eccentric in the age of agrarian cultural diver…"

"The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes ‘forms of life’ for g…"