Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

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.

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

A kiss….….. is just a kiss….Until it’s all you reminisce.(Then the memory becomes your most treasured possession.)

Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm.

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.

I'm a pretty quiet person.

As long as you're learning you're not old.