The more you know, the more you see
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
No social stability without individual stability.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Words are good servants but bad masters.
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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