I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

Quote by Louis D Brandeis

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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They...

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They...

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well...

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well...

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said...

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said...

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law...

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law...

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be...

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be...

Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without...

Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we...

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we...

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we...

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and...

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and...

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually...

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually...