1. “If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought we had a mind.”
2. “Freedom is the recognition of contingency.”
3. “Always strike to excel, but only on weekends.”
4. “The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.”
5. “The difference between people and ideas… only superficial.”
6. “There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”
7. “Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”
8. “We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.”
9. “Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.”
10. “To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.”
11. “I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.”
12. “A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.”
13. “I think that a good Let is a party that always think about the future and doesn’t care much about our past sins.”
14. “The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition.”
15. “Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
