The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!
The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.
Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
Only a rebuke that ‘has something in it’ will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.
Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
Opposition is not necessarily enmity.
A strong egoism is a protection.
The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.
Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.
We don’t choose each other at random. We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious.
Christmas is the alcoholidays.
The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of ‘happiness’: one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.