All the dreams you show up in are not your own.
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always ex...
Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside. And then when the startled...
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institut...
My innocence is wearin' thinBut my heart is growing strong.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Sometimes life ask you a question, but you couldn't find answer in any book. You have to create answer yourself.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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