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

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

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

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

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.

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