Del Herman

“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“Cultivate friends you disagree with, as well as those with whom you agree, because together you’ll locate the soft spots in your own thinking and find common ground to build on.”
― Robert P. George

“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”
― Thurgood Marshall

“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”
― Denis Diderot