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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.