The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

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.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

When you have an idea about something, let begin to work on it to bring it to life

Every man has a right to kill himself.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.