Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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 was not well to drive men into final corners

I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation

I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

Never be embarrassed by the things you cannot do. Be embarrassed by the things you can do and don't do well.

My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon.