Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among …

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individu…

The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the adv…

It is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his…

Can any of us fix anything? No. None of us can do that. We're specialized. Each one of us has his own line, his own work. I understand my work, you understand …