The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

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.

Home is home.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.