There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

It takes a Bigger Courage to take on Danger, where None can be Sighted.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

I had a whole bag full. And I still felt like I didn't have enough! Definitely more bikinis then you have days of vacation.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.