Date of birth: 1920-10-08
Date of death: 1986-02-11
Quotes number: 26
Nationality: American
Profession: Writer
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.