The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
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.
All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.