Rod Serling Quotes

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

All of us know that if an individual, a community, or a state is going continuously and successfully to defy the rulings of the courts, then anarchy results.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.

I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way-each one is unique.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.