'The scientific industry has its exact counterpart in the kind of minds it harnesses: they no longer need to do themselves any violence in becoming their own voluntary and zealous overseers. Even if they show themselves, outside their official capacity, to be quite human and sensible being, they are paralysed by pathic stupidity the moment they begin to think professionally.'

'The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.'

'The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.'

'The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.'

'Science develops best when its concepts and conclusions are integrated into the broader human culture and its concerns for ultimate meaning and value. Scienti…

Eugenics aims to arouse the enthusiasm or the interest of the people in the welfare of the world fifteen or twenty generations in the future. On its negative s…

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy …