1. “Morality which is no particular society’s morality is to be found nowhere.”
2. “Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.”
3. “It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
4. “At the foundation of moral thinking lie in beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.”
5. “Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.”
6. “Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.”
7. “The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.”
8. “The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.”
9. “Moral judgements are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.”
10. “What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.”
11. “Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth.”
12. “All powers tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.”
13. “The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.”
14. “History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.”
15. “We know that there are no self-evident truths.”
