Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.

Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.