There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.