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

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

- Jay L. Garfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

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