We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession.