The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Where there is nothing, there is God.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.