Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lea….

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance..

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them..

Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes..

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, dis….

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms..