(33 quotes found)
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Sigmund Freud
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.”
“People are made either to sufffer or to destroy.”
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”
“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”
Wallace Stevens
“I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''”
“We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own criminal tendencies.”
