Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

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

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.

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

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.