The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

One of my greatest obsessions is the lights of a city. Through my eyes there is nothing so delicious and rich and lovely.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear.

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.

Look and you wlll see, that which was can never be. When they seek a boy your age, Run, you flippin moron, run!