Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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.

They are the we of me.

When a blind man says, 'God is good, ' this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.

So at the end of this day, we give thanksFor being betrothed to the unknown.

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.