What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.