Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.