Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
"When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
There are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.
All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.
Thus the essence of freedom of opinion is not in mere toleration as such, but in the debate which toleration provides: it is not in the venting of opinion, but in the confrontation of opinion.
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.
It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?
If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
