Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

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.

Two things define you, your attitude when you are at your worst and your attitude when you are at your best.

You are what you read because your mind is the sit of your knowledge acquried

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.