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

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.

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

[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.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

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.