Marcel Wanders Quotes

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Pluralism is political polytheism…. a unitary society cannot assimilate a welter of competing, incommensurate moral claims.

We have abandoned the claim to have a monopoly on the truth.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Since opinions do not find in me a ready soil to thrust and spread their roots into, no premise shocks me, no belief hurts me, no matter how opposite to my own they may be.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.