“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”

“My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”

“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human ...”

“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

“members of labor unions, and un-organized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being export...”

“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do wha...”

“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not”

“Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.”