...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Dawn is born at midnight.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.