Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

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.

To be saved is here, local and mortal

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

I have always had a problem with my weight.

If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.