“It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.”
“Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.”
“The pursuit of knowledge, is a worthy objective in its own right and needs no external validation”
“The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.”
“[Perverse] unreason has its own logical processes”
“He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.”