Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

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.

I can't tell you how terribly glad I am that you're going to be all right, " George said, rather thickly. "I...I wouldn't know how to act without a twin.

In every little boy child is hidden a great man

I don’t want to still be mad at them. But right now, I don’t know how not to be.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness