To be great is to assume great concerns.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth