We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

A room without books is a body without soul

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.