"

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with su...more

"

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

"

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

"

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems...more

"

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

"

The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit ...more

"

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

"

We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. Wh...more

"

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

"

Every man is a poet at heart.

"

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

"

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe...more

"

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

"

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbia...more

"

There is only one state- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological- in which it does not do this. At the height...more