Truth [is] What Is Better For Us

At 12, I Knew That The Point Of Being Human Was To Spend One's Life Fighting Social Injustice.

Every Government, Left Or Right, Always Engages In Moral Crusades. What Else Are They Supposed To Do? Especially When They Make War; Any War Has To Be A Moral Crusade.

Academic Disciplines Are Subject To Being Overtaken By Attacks Of "knowingness"- A State Of Mind And Soul That Prevents Shudders Of Awe And Makes One Immune To Enthusiasm.

[walt] Whitman And [humanist Educator John] Dewey Tried To Substitute Hope For Knowledge. They Wanted To Put Shared Utopian Dreams - Dreams Of An Ideally Decent And Civilized Society - In The Place Of Knowledge Of God's Will, Moral Law, The Laws Of History, Or The Facts Of Science.... As Long As We Have A Functioning Political Left, We Still Have A Chance To Achieve Our Country, To Make It The Country Of Whitman's And Dewey's Dreams.

My Principal Motive Is The Belief That We Can Still Make Admirable Sense Of Our Lives Even If We Cease To Have... An Ambition Of Transcendence.