Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

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.

The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.