A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.