That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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.

I think a lot of people are really scared right now. Not every person makes good choices, and sometimes, when people are scared, there are people who try to take advantage of that fear.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

Leave your excuses behind, and you will begin to attract wealth.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.