I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

What they actually did matters more than what they said

My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.