I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

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.

Hell won't be so bad, you know. After all, I'll be there to keep you company.

You can raise your potential, when you help someone to reach their potential.

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.