Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.
In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won’t triumph over his fate.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called ‘facts’ or ‘data’ one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.