Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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.

There's not a lot to do when you don't want to do anything.

Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

Until someone else does... marry yourself

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.