Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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.

Pain pumps blood when heart dies

Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.