All Life Is Problem Solving

I Am Opposed To Looking Upon Logic As A Kind Of Game. ... One Might Think That It Is A Matter Of Choice Or Convention Which Logic One Adopts. I Disagree With This View.

The Old Scientific Ideal Of Episteme - Of Absolutely Certain, Demonstrable Knowledge - Has Proved To Be An Idol. The Demand For Scientific Objectivity Makes It Inevitable That Every Scientific Statement Must Remain Tentative For Ever.

We Do Not Choose Political Freedom Because It Promises Us This Or That. We Choose It Because It Makes Possible The Only Dignified Form Of Human Coexistence, The Only Form In Which We Can Be Fully Responsible For Ourselves. Whether We Realize Its Possibilities Depends On All Kinds Of Things — And Above All On Ourselves.

We Have The Right Not To Tolerate The Intolerant. We Should Tolerate Even Them Whenever We Can Do So Without Running A Great Risk; But The Risk May Become So Great That We Cannot Allow Ourselves The Luxury.

If We Wish Our Civilization To Survive We Must Break With The Habit Of Deference To Great Men.