In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

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.

Pain ebbs, And like cool balm, An opiate weariness Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed Pale wrists.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.