Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. |
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. |
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. |
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. |
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. |
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. |
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. |
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. |
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. |
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. |
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. |
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. |
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. |