[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

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.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

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