The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

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

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.