In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.