Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.