Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.