Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 2

The test of the justice, morality, and worth of any society is how it treats those who are dependent due to youth, old age, physical or mental disability, and economic deprivation.

No one hates truth who loves beauty.

Effectiveness knows what efficiency will never learn.

Controlling others is force; controlling self is power.

If one knows how to formulate penetrating questions and assiduously seek answers, education, with or without schools, is inevitable.

Belief is not dangerous until it turns absolute.

The mind cannot look into itself anymore than an eye can look into itself. Both can do no more than reflect on reflection.

We spend the first thirty years wanting to be older, the next thirty wanting to be younger, and the remainder just wanting to be.

The new and novel should be viewed with suspicion, for it is improbable that one generation can be wiser than all ancestors combined.