The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

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?

It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.

Mindfulness could also be described as "heartfulness" because it is really about a compassionate awareness.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.