Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will.
Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?
Hillary Clinton's not seen as empathetic and compassionate.