If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.

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.

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.

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

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.