I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.