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Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
Sep 10, 2025
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.
Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
History is the same thing over and over again.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.