Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

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.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play.

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

Activity does not necessarily equal progress.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

I'm all about the crockpot.

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.