No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can only be one true way- and they want to find it. Thus normative philosophers argue that knowledge is a result of the application of certain rules, they propose rules which in their opinion constitute knowledge and reject what clashes with them.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of thought that have been developed by man, and not necessarily the best. It is conspicuous, noisy, and impudent, but it is inherently superior only for those who have already decided in favour of a certain ideology, or who have accepted it without ever having examined its advantages and its limits.

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.