The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.