Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

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

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism.