Only the educated are free.

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

God has created the world in play.