Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

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.

Reputation is like wearing a T-shirt......you don't just wear it... you also represent it...

No cause occurs without effect, and no effect occurs without cause. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.