In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

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.

Our emotions affect the atmosphere around us, and other people, because emotions influence the electromagnetic field our heart emits.

Theism is a philosophy of non-thinker.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.

War is a need by a country that wants power, but the USA is already great

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see / I guess that's just the cowboy in me.