“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy”
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“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy”
“For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die”
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them”
“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him”
“Ambition and suspicion always go together”
“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.”
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided”
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process”
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”