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

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

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.

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

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

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

My own mind is my own church.