“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
“Where id was, there ego shall be.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
“I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.”
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
“To be stupid, selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”
“Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions.”
“Travel makes one modest; you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”