Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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.

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

- You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wider and deeper.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.

I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e. "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.