For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
This stance assumes truth-telling is always superior to diplomatic compromise.
'I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches'.
I trust that I have now made amends for any ambiguity, or want of fulness, in my previous exposition of that which I hold to be the essence of the Agnostic doc…
'The mediaeval university looked backwards: it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge... The modern university looks forward: it is a factory of new kno…
Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona.
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.
Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To gi…