It Is Of Man's Essence To Create

The Major Task Of The Twentieth Century Will Be To Explore The Unconscious, To Investigate The Subsoil Of The Mind.

All The Translations Of A Poem In All Possible Languages May Add Nuance To Nuance And, By A Kind Of Mutual Retouching, By Correcting One Another, May Give An Increasingly Faithful Picture Of The Poem They Translate, Yet They Will Never Give The Inner Meaning Of The Original.

Europe Is Overpopulated, The World Will Soon Be In The Same Condition, And If The Self-reproduction Of Man Is Not Rationalized... We Shall Have War.

Laughter Is The Corrective Force Which Prevents Us From Becoming Cranks.

On The Other Hand, The Pleasure Caused By Laughter, Even On The Stage, Is Not An Unadulterated Enjoyment; It Is Not A Pleasure That Is Exclusively Esthetic Or Altogether Disinterested. It Always Implies A Secret Or Unconscious Intent, If Not Of Each One Of Us, At All Events Of Society As A Whole. In Laughter We Always Find An Unavowed Intention To Humiliate, And Consequently To Correct Our Neighbour, If Not In His Will, At Least In His Deed.