"Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs."

"A relevant notion of efficiency must refer to scarcity and people as they are, not as they could be."

"The pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main th…"

"In Colin Wilson's science-fiction novel, The Mind Parasites, the protagonist and his associates discover that human consciousness has been victimized, dragged down, and intimidated by a strange parasi…"

"The business of saying, in advance of a serious effort, that people are not capable of achieving a good education is too strongly reminiscent of the opposition of every extension of democracy. This op…"