Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

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.

I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.