Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

We must exude a sense of proportional gratitude that humankind’s exquisite texture is composed of a feeling soul and an intelligent will, which people refer to as memory of the heart.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.

Savage is he who saves himself.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.