Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

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.

Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness.

I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

Recognizing the Savior's spiritual light begins with our willingness to believe.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.