It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

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.

We must all raise war against ignorance.

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

trantulus casually roasted a marshmallow and reached out for it but the marshmallow commited sucide and dived into the flames.