The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

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 is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

I know what my strengths are, and I know what my not strengths are.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

The best content is the means, not the end.

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.