Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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.

The hidden keys of true happiness are individual responsibility and an incessant quest for joy.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

They kind of go hand-in-hand. Following your motivation, resting when you need to rest, and going for it when you feel inspired.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

I am fearless when I think I'm alone.

Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.