“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

The madman is a dreamer awake.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.