Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

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.

All romantic novels end the same way, but it's the process of getting there that provides all the enjoyment.

Do not just exist, be fully awake.

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve.

I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

My life is going to change. I feel it.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.