Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.