"We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We wan…"

"An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march."

"The word "philosophy" carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird."

"In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other."

"Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous."

"The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to be made safe for human beings. And the way t…"

"Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being o…"

"A signpost doesn't in and of itself represent the way to the village. We have to learn how to take it."

"Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism?"

"Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?"