Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.