Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

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.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

Sometimes the right path is not always the easiest.

All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land.

I am that by which I know 'I am'