All sins are attempts to fill voids

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock