Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Sadness is not out there. It's inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation.

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

While you are too busy minding other people's business, who is busy minding yours?

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

The favorite to win the Olympic gold medal in archery is a legally blind athlete from South Korea, mainly because everyone else is too scared to compete next to him.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.