

“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind

“History enters when the space of the possible is vastly larger than the space of the actual.”
― Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
― Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
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