To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

As I get more and more involved in the child's world with Rocco his son I'm getting interested in making a film for children.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.