Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.