“Use the word purely as an incantation….It is a name they venerate. And of course it is connected with the political ideal that men should be equally treated. You then make a stealthy transition…to a factual belief that all men are equal. As a resultyou can use the word democracy to sanction…the most degrading (and…
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; [source]
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.” “Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the…
The Deputy Director hardly ever slept. When it became absolutely necessary for him to do so, be took a drug, but the necessity was rare, for the mode of consciousness he experienced at most hours of day or night had long ceased to be exactly like what other men call waking. He had learned to…
