The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

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.

Children get used to the thought of their fate depends on powerful parents deciding everything in their life

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels.

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe.

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing.