Poems List

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Man knows more than he understands.

Man know much more than he understands.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

To be human means to feel inferior.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Whenever a child lies you will find a severe parent. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt to be dangerous.

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. -- Prayer To A Pregnant Woman

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.