When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical …

- Jay L. Garfield

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is t…

- Jay L. Garfield

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

- Jay L. Garfield

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

- Jay L. Garfield

I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own cu…

- Jay L. Garfield

Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, in…

- Jay L. Garfield

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining…

- Jay L. Garfield

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisat…

- Jay L. Garfield

Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Al…

- Jay L. Garfield