5 quotes
No opinion should be disdained and scorned.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
It is not the citizen, or a taxpayer, or voter, or office-holder, but the cultivated, free individual who is the true aim of all social progress.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
If ceaseless vigilance is the price of liberty, more so is it true that ceaseless criticism of ever new opinions and ever new views, however distasteful, bizarre, and paradoxical, is the price of truth.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)