There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting..

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or ….

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities..

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament..

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the….

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of child….

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or th….

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist..

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to g….

The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His ….

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every po….

If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility of conflict - and o….

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs..

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else ….

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning ….

Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inn….

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 history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men….

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prov….

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated..