And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.