The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

His voice was everything she equated with home.

I'm only in competition with my last level.

The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend.

You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

Waging war is not a primary physical need.