Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

I am neither as drunk as a Lord, nor as sober as a Judge. I am more in the condition of a Lord Justice.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself…

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men t…

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth…