Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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 eff...
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridicu...
Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.
The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.
The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and d...