Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.