 What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. |
| The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. |
| We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. |
| One is very crazy when in love. |
| Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. |
| Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. |
| Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. |
| Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. |
| Anatomy is destiny. |
| A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. |
| Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. |
