We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the cent...ury. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their m...ouths, they can start putting it in their bank.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth--the power to love--although I have put it last, is the rarest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret str...iving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order t...o extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chartered recountants take the thing to pieces and put it together again. They enjoy it. The artist takes it to pieces and mak...es a new thing, new things. He must.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Psycho-analysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the A...nalysts already know what's in it--they should, because they put it all in beforehand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to w...hich you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning--"enemies of society," as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side.... Hell is not to love any more, madame. Not to love any more!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »