In real life there is no such person as the average man.

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.

I bestowed consciousness on mankind

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

There are atheists, and I love them. In fact, I died for them.

No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.

Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

The best music of any era lasts well, I think.