Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The supreme vice is shallowness.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty.
In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
To communicate oneself is Nature; to receive a communication as it is given is Culture.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.