“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”

“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”

“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.”

“My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”

“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ”

“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”