I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The universe is wider than our views of it.