To be sheltered from the winds of doctrine is to be kept from contact with reality. The man who is protected against every draught of opinion is kept from the real world; but then, what is the real world?

The demand that I must not think what I think has never, in the whole of history, made a man think differently. It has only made him pretend to.

The best way to destroy the last vestige of intellectual freedom is to assume that it doesn't matter, or that the problems it solves are unimportant because they aren't commercial. The truth is that the best part of intellectual work is never commercial.

The chief danger of our age is that all mankind should be sunk in a depression of the same kind, all held in the same mold by the oppressiveness of a system of thought in which there is neither criticism of life nor xiety about truth.