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.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

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

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

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

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.