People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

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.

It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?