A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever fau…

Education: 'In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.'

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us…

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…