Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

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

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.