The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

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 see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.