He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.

If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

Nothing's faster than the Internet.

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Whereever you end up;" Jack whispered into my ear."I wish you clear skies. Always