The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

My own mind is my own church.

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.