Out Of The Crooked Timber

The Case Against The Notion Of Historical Objectivity Is Like The Case Against International Law, Or International Morality; That It Does Not Exist.

The Trouble With Academics And Commentators Is That They Care More About Whether Ideas Are Interesting Than Whether They Are True.

All Forms Of Tampering With Human Beings, Getting At Them, Shaping Them Against Their Will To Your Own Pattern, All Thought Control And Conditioning Is, Therefore, A Denial Of That In Men Which Makes Them Men And Their Values Ultimate.

Only Barbarians Are Not Curious About Where They Come From, How They Came To Be Where They Are, Where They Appear To Be Going, Whether They Wish To Go There, And If So, Why, And If Not, Why Not.

Few New Truths Have Ever Won Their Way Against The Resistance Of Established Ideas Save By Being Overstated.