One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Love, too, has to be learned.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.