The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.