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

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

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.

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

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