A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

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.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

I must have been a koala in my past life.