Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

We have let houses that our fathers built fall into pieces, and now we try to break into Oriental palaces that our fathers never knew.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man --his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Mark: Hey, did you see Carl wearing Claire's sweatshirt the other day? Julie: They're going out; they can do that. Me: Still, I guess it's a good thing Claire doesn't wear skirts that often...

If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fire, then what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that to us, do they?;"George Carlin

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people so ugly you wouldn't want to touch them in the first place?;"George Carlin

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.

The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.

Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

Carlie: Dave's asexual. Lisa: That's unfortunate... for you.

A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Carlyle said, 'A lie cannot live'; it shows he did not know how to tell them.