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

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.