The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell |
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. |
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. |
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?" |
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. |
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. |
The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever. |
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. |
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities. |
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real |
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real |
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. |
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. |
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. |
The role of the intelligence -that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. |