Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart$$$ if they exist$$$ I will still not have the power to forget you.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is$$$ perhaps$$$ the oldest science$$$ and$$$ unfortunately$$$ in its most essential features a forgotten science.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind$$$ and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

If you loved someone$$$ you loved him$$$ and when you had nothing else to give$$$ you still gave him love.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

I hate purity$$$ I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Progress is not an illusion; it happens$$$ but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.