"(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."

"Dr J. O. Wisdom once observed to me that he knew people who thought there was no philosophy after Hegel, and others w…"

"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 …"

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