“Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves”

“Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.”

“The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.”

“عادة ما يبدأ السيكولوجيون المهتمون بمشكلة المثلية بالتفكير عن الرغبة الغريبة لدى رجل يمكنهُ أن يمضى إلى الفراش مع رجل آخر أو لدى امرأة يمكنها ذلك مع امرأة أخرى. إن الغرابة ليست موجودة إلا بالنسبة للواقع المادي المجسّد، أما في حقل الاستيهام فالرجل يلعب دور المرأة والعكس بالعكس.”

“The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.”

“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”

“Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. ”