God Chose What Is Weakest In The

It Is False To Believe That The Sun Revolves Around The Earth, But It Is Not Absurd.

If It Is True That We Need A Degree Of Certainty To Get By, It Is Also True That Too Much Of The Stuff Can Be Lethal.

Understanding Is Always In Some Sense Retrospective, Which Is What Hegel Meant By Remarking That The Owl Of Minerva Flies Only At Night.

In The End, The Humanities Can Only Be Defended By Stressing How Indispensable They Are; And This Means Insisting On Their Vital Role In The Whole Business Of Academic Learning, Rather Than Protesting That, Like Some Poor Relation, They Don't Cost Much To Be Housed.

It Is Important To See That, In The Critique Of Ideology, Only Those Interventions Will Work Which Make Sense To The Mystified Subject Itself.