Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

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

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

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

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.