To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns.

When A Man Speaks Of The Need For Realism One May Be Sure That This Is Always The Prelude To Some Bloody Deed.

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.

The Very Desire For Guarantees That Our Values Are Eternal And Secure In Some Objective Heaven Is Perhaps Only A Craving For The Certainties Of Childhood Or The Absolute Values Of Our Primitive Past.

The Intellectual Power, Honesty, Lucidity, Courage, And Disinterested Love Of The Truth Of The Most Gifted Thinkers Of The Eighteenth Century Remain To This Day Without Parallel. Their Age Is One Of The Best And Most Hopeful Episodes In The Life Of Mankind.

Those Who Have Ever Valued Liberty For Its Own Sake Believed That To Be Free To Choose, And Not To Be Chosen For, Is An Inalienable Ingredient In What Makes Human Beings Human.