What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.

It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.

What others think of you doesn't matter as much as what you think of yourself.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

We do not actually know other cultures

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.