If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

A seed is like a little girl: it can look small and worthless, but if you treat it well then it will grow beautiful.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.