1. “True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.”
2. “To understand is to perceive patterns.”
3. “Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.”
4. “All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.”
5. “Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.”
6. “There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessary prove interesting.”
7. “The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.”
8. “The fist people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.”
9. “Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.”
10. “The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.”
11. “Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”
12. “Life my be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.”
13. “The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the mark of high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.”
14. “We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable.”
15. “Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.”
