All sorts of absurd assumptions pass current as fixed and
non-debatable standards. We might be free, and we tie
ourselves to the slavery of rutted convention. Afraid of
ideas, we come to no definite philosophy of life that is the
result of clear and pellucid thinking.

We must get rid of our bonds, but only in order to take on
new ones. For our convictions will shackle us. The
difference is that then we shall be servants of Truth and
not of dead Tradition.—From the Note Book of a Dreamer.