Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.

Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly enough, while all governments aim at producing men of this type to the exclusion of all other types, their heroes in the past are of exactly the sort that they aim at preventing in the present. Americans admire George Washington and Jefferson, but imprison those who share their political opinions.