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

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

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.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

The world is no nursery.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.