Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.