"The choice of conformity with 'nature' as a supreme standard leads ultimately to consequences which few will be prepared to face, it does not lead to a more natural form of civilization, but to beastliness."
- The Open Society and its Enemies page 72
"Totalitarianism is not simply amoral. It is the morality of the closed society - of the group, or of the tribe; it is not individual selfishness, but it is collective selfishness."
- p. 114 - 115
"A certain amount of state control in education...is necessary, if the young are to be protected from a neglect which would make them unable to defend their freedom, and the state should see that all educational facilities are available to everybody. But too much state control in educational matters is a fatal danger to freedom, since it must lead to indoctrination."
- p. 117 - 118
"...those who are not sufficiently educated, and thus not wise enough to know their deficiencies, are just those who are in the greatest need of education. Readinessto learn in itself proves the possession of wisdo, in fact all wisdom claimed by Socrates for himself; for he who is ready to learn knows how little he knows. The uneducated seems thus to be in need of an authority to wake him up, since he cannot be expected to be self-critical."
- p. 137
"The true teacher can prove himself only be exhibiting that self-criticism which the uneducated lacks."
- p. 138
"...the secret of intellectual excellence is the spirit of criticism; it is the intellectual independence."
- p. 143
"...many things have been realized which have once been dogmatically declared to be unrealizable..."
- p. 171
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