To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

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.

For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger

Mankind must live in harmony with one another.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.