“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former”
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“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former”
“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”
“Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousness”
“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy”
“Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools”
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid”
“You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought”
“No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist”
“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust”
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots”
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country”
“Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves”
“My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious”
“He who sleeps half a day has won half a life”
“Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.”
“The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women”
“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character”