That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

So funktioniert Höflichkeit. Man pflegt Beziehungen mit Leuten, auch wenn man sie nicht mag.

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society

Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

I love being about to "feel". Society don't "feel" and I would like to be the opposite of that.

Clearly she didn't get out into society nearly enough. Her pulse had no taste in men whatsoever.

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.