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

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.