Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

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 writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.

you are the cause by which I die

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.