Where id was, there ego shall be.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

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.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity