Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Sometimes it's better to pretend as if you know nothing. The vast majority of people can't be trusted, but in God I trust.

You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races. Intent is where insult lies, and hate. Not in language.

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.