All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

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.

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

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

My own mind is my own church.

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

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.