“Truth is a tendency.”

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are.

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.

I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.

There has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.