Truth [is] What Is Better For Us

There Is Nothing Deep Down Inside Us Except What We Have Put There Ourselves.

There Are Credentials For Admission To Our Democratic Society [...]. You Have To Be Educated In Order To Be A Participant In Our Conversation So We Are Going To Go Right On Trying To Discredit You In The Eyes Of Your Children, Trying To Strip Your Fundamentalist Religious Community Of Dignity, Trying To Make Your Views Seem Silly Rather Than Discussable. We Are Not So Inclusivist As To Tolerate Intolerance Such As Yours.

What Sort Of World Can We Prepare For Our Great Grandchildren?

To Say That Truth Is Not Out There Is Simply To Say That Where There Are No Sentences There Is No Truth, That Sentences Are Elements Of Human Languages, And That Languages Are Human Creations.~ The Suggestion That Truth~ Is Out There Is A Legacy Of An Age In Which The World Was Seen As The Creation Of A Being Who Had A Language His Own.

You Read The Pragmatists And All You Know Is: Not Descartes, Not Kant, Not Plato. It's Like Aspirin. You Can't Use Aspirin To Give Yourself Power, You Take It To Get Rid Of Headaches. In That Way, Pragmatism Is A Philosophical Therapy. It Helps You Stop Asking The Unhelpful Questions.