To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.