To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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.
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.
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.