We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

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.

Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.

Shall we accept the testimony of a man, yet reject the Truth of God.

Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message

Love me, that's all I ask of you...

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.

There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting in the spiritual.