Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry, ' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job.

He wanted to regain his memory, but not if it cost him Victoria. He would give up everything for her.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and tedious process.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

Harry and Draco have a very weird love/hate relationship.

My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.