We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the his...
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.