Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.

The ego is not master in its own house.

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

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.