The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

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