Anyone Can Be Tolerant Of

To Claim That Science And Religion Pose Different Questions To The World Is Not To Suggest That If The Bones Of Jesus Were Discovered In Palestine, The Pope Should Get Himself Down To The Dole Queue As Fast As Possible. It Is Rather To Claim That While Faith, Rather Like Love, Must Involve Factual Knowledge, It Is Not Reducible To It.

The Past Can Be Used To Renew The Present, Not Just To Bury It.

Literary Texts Do Not Exist On Bookshelves: They Are Processes Of Signification Materialized Only In The Practice Of Reading. For Literature To Happen, The Reader Is Quite As Vital As The Author.

People Do Evil Things Because They Are Evil. Some People Are Evil In The Way That Some Things Are Coloured Indigo. They Commit Their Evil Deeds Not To Achieve Some Goal, But Just Because Of The Sort Of People They Are.

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.