Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Let your resolution and confession be, 'I will change these things because I want to succeed, and I want to succeed because it will bring me the happiness I seek and desire.

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

It's always better to be real.

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.