It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In read more

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Without speculation there is no good and original observation.

Without speculation there is no good and original observation.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a read more

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are read more

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.