Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.