Confronted With Such A Variety Most Philosophers

It Is Clear, Then, That The Idea Of A Fixed Method, Or Of A Fixed Theory Of Rationality, Rests On Too Naive A View Of Man And His Social Surroundings. To Those Who Look At The Rich Material Provided By History, And Who Are Not Intent On Impoverishing It In Order To Please Their Lower Instincts, Their Craving For Intellectual Security In The Form Of Clarity, Precision, "objectivity," "truth," It Will Become Clear That There Is Only One Principle That Can Be Defended Under All Circumstances And In All Stages Of Human Development. It Is The Principle: Anything Goes.

No Theory Ever Agrees With All The Facts In Its Domain, Yet It Is Not Always The Theory That Is To Blame. Facts Are Constituted By Older Ideologies, And A Clash Between Facts And Theories May Be Proof Of Progress. It Is Also A First Step In Our Attempt To Find The Principles Implicit In Familiar Observational Notions.

In A War A Totalitarian State Has A Free Hand.

Rational Discourse Is Only One Way Of Presenting And Examining An Issue And By No Means The Best. Our New Intellectuals Are Not Aware Of Its Limitations And Of The Nature Of The Things Outside.

Traditions Are Neither Good Nor Bad, They Simply Are... Rationality Is Not An Arbiter Of Traditions, It Is Itself A Tradition Or An Aspect Of A Tradition.