The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

If you want to do something do it!

Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.