One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

Speech is civilization itself.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.