Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.
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