"The Spanish Inquisition sought to avoid direct responsibility for the burning of heretics by handing them over to the…"

"In the interests of the ideal of maximum output, [our society] judges men by their fitness for jobs, not jobs by thei…"

"The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or quest…"

"If “humility” means nothing more than the capacity to learn from criticism, then it has an undoubted value; but if “h…"

"Pride in one’s work carries with it a determination to accept the demands imposed by that work: in the case of philos…"

"Will books, as we know them, come to an end? Yes, absolutely, within 25 years the digital revolution will bring about…"

"We like to think we're free in the ; that we're beyond the forces of advertising and social manipulation by market fo…"

"Communal living: Plato recommended it, 19th-century religious separatists tried it, anarchists and hippies spectacula…"

"Proud Queen of isles! Thou sittest vast, alone, A host of vassals bending round thy throne: Like some fair swan that …"

"And, oh Britannia! should'st thou cease to ride Despotic Empress of old Ocean's tide;— Should thy tam'd Lion—spent hi…"