Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.