But To Manipulate Men, To Propel Them

One Must Look At What Impiety Hates, What Puts It In A Rage, What It Attacks Always, Everywhere, And With Fury - That Will Be The Truth.

The Trouble With Academics And Commentators Is That They Care More About Whether Ideas Are Interesting Than Whether They Are True.

The Fundamental Sense Of Freedom Is Freedom From Chains, From Imprisonment, From Enslavement By Others. The Rest Is Extension Of This Sense, Or Else Metaphor.

But To Manipulate Men, To Propel Them Toward Goals Which You-the Social Reformers-see, But They May Not, Is To Deny Their Human Essence, To Treat Them As Objects Without Wills Of Their Own, And Therefore To Degrade Them.

The Intellectual Power, Honesty, Lucidity, Courage, And Disinterested Love Of The Truth Of The Most Gifted Thinkers Of The Eighteenth Century Remain To This Day Without Parallel. Their Age Is One Of The Best And Most Hopeful Episodes In The Life Of Mankind.