Our Belief In Any Particular Natural Law

. . . It Seems To Me Certain That More People Are Killed Out Of Righteous Stupidity Than Out Of Wickedness.

Genuine Philosophical Problems Are Always Rooted Outside Philosophy And They Die If These Roots Decay.

Those Who Promise Us Paradise On Earth Never Produced Anything But A Hell.

I Have Insisted That We Must Be Tolerant. But I Also Believe That This Tolerance Has Its Limits. We Must Not Trust Those Anti-humanitarian Religions Which Not Only Preach Destruction But Act Accordingly. For If We Tolerate Them, Then We Become Ourselves Responsible For For Their Deeds.

For Myself, I Am Interested In Science And In Philosophy Only Because I Want To Learn Something About The Riddle Of The World In Which We Live, And The Riddle Of Man's Knowledge Of That World. And I Believe That Only A Revival Of Interest In These Riddles Can Save The Sciences And Philosophy From An Obscurantist Faith In The Expert's Special Skill And In His Personal Knowledge And Authority.