Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

Life is extremely complicated.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.