There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.

A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.