When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

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.

Don't ever let another man call your child daddy.

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

The beginning sets the rules.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.