💬 Quotes

"The Modern Utopia must be not static but kinetic, must not be as a town planned upon a definite barren site, but as a city accidentally vast, which must be remodeled faster than it can be marred."

"The fundamental idea of modern Utopia is permanence through change. A state is not a thing, but a process."

"The primary problem of Utopia is the problem of knowledge; how best to sort out the abilities of every citizen and place them where they will be of the highest service."

"Machinery is the new Prometheus, bringing fire to men, and it has to be watched and disciplined lest it consume them."

"In a truly modern state, there must be neither the absolute freedom of the individual to do evil nor the absolute tyranny of the state to crush initiative."

"We are all seeking a world that is secure, yet adventurous; orderly, yet free. That is the eternal paradox of the utopian quest."

"The id knows no judgments of value: no good and evil, no morality."

"The ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world."

"The superego aims for perfection rather than pleasure; it is the moral arm of the personality."

"Repression is the mechanism whereby a painful or dangerous thought, wish, or perception is forced out of consciousness and denied access to motor expression."

"Anxiety is an emotional pain signaling to the ego that danger is impending."

"The childhood experiences of the individual are of paramount importance because they lay down the tracks along which the personality will run for the rest of its life."

"Le malheur a cela de bon qu'il vous apprend à connaître les vrais amis."

"L'amour est la plus belle et la plus terrible des passions."

"Il faut avoir fait le tour de toutes les douleurs pour comprendre le prix d'un sourire."

"Les apparences sont souvent trompeuses, mais le cœur ne se trompe jamais sur ce qu'il ressent."

"Dans les profondeurs de la terre, là où le jour ne pénètre jamais, les secrets les plus sombres grandissent en silence."

"Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it."

"He possessed a wunderkind's absolute pitch for odors; he recognized every scent, remembered it once he had smelled it, and never forgot anything he had ever smelled."

"For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was the brother of breath."