A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.