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.

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.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

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

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.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.