"My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have … "an …"

"As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the p…"

"Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative."

"Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than o…"

"… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on an…"

"Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something polit…"

"If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got ex…"

"Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister—corrupting the youth, undermining the…"

"Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual’s tendency to mar…"

"On James's view, "true" resembles "good" or "rational" in being a normative notion, a compliment paid to sentences th…"