Occupation: Writer Birth: September 12, 1921 Death: March 27, 2006
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it..
Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fil….
Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have ….
A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded..
If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?.
Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely..
Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom..
For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears ….
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other..
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines..
He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had..
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and ….
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets..
If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently..
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance..
Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly..
I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes..
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness..
A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it..
We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf..
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet..