Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.