"It is a notorious fact that the morality of society as a whole is in inverse ratio to its size."

"A good man is one whose opinions and activities are pleasing to the holders of power."

"The works of great artists are silent books of eternal truths."

"Freud’s greatest discovery is that the great cause of much psychological illness is the fear of knowledge of oneself."

"In the nineteenth century, one could say : “God is dead.” In the twentieth, one must say that man is dead."

"Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden."

"The name is still the same; but the thing is almost unrecognizably different from what Charles Dickens meant by ‘Christmas'."

"One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions."

"To the three physical components Sheldon gives the names of endomorphy, mesomorphy and ectomorphy."

"The “Will to Power” has nothing to do with tyranny — it is opposed alike to the tyranny of the autocrat and the tyranny of the majority."

"His pride, his timidity and sensitiveness made of Flaubert a shy, lonely, grumpy misanthrope."

"The experience of the Middle Passage is not unlike awakening to find that one is alone on a pitching ship, with no port in sight. "

"The time of which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time."

"Most of us are so preoccupied with the noise, .. the cacophony of the modern world that we have no energy left for constructive living."

"The rebel function is necessary as the life-blood of culture, as the very roots of civilization."

"The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real."

"In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours."

"The man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state and an irresistible scientific technique."

"What is television ? What kinds of conversations does it permit ? What are the intellectual tendencies it encourages ?"

"We are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it."

"L’idée selon laquelle « vous pouvez être ce que vous voulez » .. signifie désormais que l’on peut changer d’identité comme de chemise."

"The capacity for discerning the essential truth, in fact, is as rare among men as it is common among crows, bullfrogs and mackerel."

"In Greek mythology, Sleep and Death, Hypnos and Thanatos, are twin brothers."