To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

To be adult is to be alone.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.