Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

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.

He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books.

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?

The less you need, the more you live

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

I don't own a blowdryer - I don't know how to use it. Most mornings, I walk to work with my hair wet.

If you don’t use your voice, there’s someone waiting behind you who will.

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.