Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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

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