A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

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.

Checking in on what our kids are doing online isn't helicoptering, it's parenting.

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

A community that engages readers and culturally enabled people to connect, support and harness intellectual and cultural capabilities.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.

Keep your mind young by continuing to learn about your business.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.