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

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.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

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

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