Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

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

The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves