Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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.

If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'.

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it.

A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.