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

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

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.

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

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

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.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.