What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

I write a lot of environmental stories.

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.