All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm.

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.