Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

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.

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

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

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

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

To understand is to perceive patterns.