Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.