Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.