Occupation: Author Birth: January 2, 1920 Death: April 6, 1992
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which t….
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them..
Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise..
Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. ….
The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise ….
What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the r….
On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again...on the….
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without….
I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded wo….
There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is o….
Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or….
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics..
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander..
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our ….
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a mi….
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy..
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander..
Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases..
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the cen….
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream..
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion t….