Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

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.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.

He missed his imagined future.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.