A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he or she continues to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived. The convert who approaches the people but feels alarm at each step they take, each doubt they express, and each suggestion they offer, and attempts to impose his "status," remains nostalgic towards his origins.