My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it.