We reject the false choice between being alone and being available.

There is no expertise about how the individual should relate to society.

There is only advocacy for one or the other.

The scientific realist thinks of the truth of our theories like the political idealist feels about the justice of our practices.

Love is hard. When one despairs,
the other must hope;
when one is fearless,
the other must imagine the danger.

Some women are given a choice
between one man and another.
I asked her to choose between me
and not me. Unmoved by logic,
unfazed by paradox, she thought
that she could have us both.

The academic takes a pecuniary interest in peculiar ideas, makes a university of the universal, a corporation of the corpus.

You must believe in the colour of spring. I.e., "happiness is easy" and "suicide is painless".