General Sayings

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing.

The celestial sphere is finite and spherical.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.

I have friends in the other world. I have had very pleasant conversations with them. I am rather unorthodox in this matter.

There are cruel, ignorant people who have tried to make my work appear bad. But it is not bad. It is good. It is for the good of humanity.

The value of the experiment as a means of solving questions of evolution must not be underestimated.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much, to contradict seldom, and to use all the good manners one can.

It is a pleasure to be able to inform you that the machine has been a success.

The great difficulty for our contemporary way of thinking is that we must recognize the identity of the experiencing and the experienced subject.

The popular view that the brain is a 'digital computer' is a profound oversimplification.

I would like to add a third possibility, that it might be that, when we die, we just die, and that's the end of it.

The universe doesn't care about your feelings.

All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.

It is not so much what one does, as what one is, that matters.

There are no experts on the future.