The Most Important Advance That The West

Nowadays, To Say That We Are Clever Animals Is Not To Say Something Philosophical And Pessimistic But Something Political And Hopeful - Namely, If We Can Work Together, We Can Make Ourselves Into Whatever We Are Clever And Courageous Enough To Imagine Ourselves Becoming. This Is To Set Aside Kant's Question "what Is Man?" And To Substitute The Question "what Sort Of World Can We Prepare For Our Great Grandchildren?

The Most Important Advance That The West Has Yet Made Is To Develop A Secularist Moral Tradition

Every Government, Left Or Right, Always Engages In Moral Crusades. What Else Are They Supposed To Do? Especially When They Make War; Any War Has To Be A Moral Crusade.

All Human Relations Untouched By Love Take Place In The Dark

If The Body Had Been Easier To Understand, Nobody Would Have Thought That We Had A Mind.