On psychology
"When I set myself the task of bringing to light what human beings keep hidden with him,...I thought the task was a harder one than it really is. He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." - Sigmund Freud
On personal qualities
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
On the meaning of life
"Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive." - Joseph Heller, Catch-22
On individual and society
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)." - Mark Twain
"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone." - Paul Tillich
"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"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." - Sigmund Freud
On economics
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." - Friedrich Hayek
On success
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
On the law
"dura lex sed lex" The law is hard, but it is the law - a Latin expression
On religion and science
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
On absurdity
"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions." - Abba Eban
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."- Albert Einstein
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
