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

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

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

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….

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

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….

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….

Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselv….

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

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others..

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker..

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions..

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..

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a concept….

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

The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but c….

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to le….

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 first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds..

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain ….

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 ….