Max Nordau > Quotes

“Degenerates are not always criminals, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; They are often authors and artists.”
― Max Nordau, Degeneration

“These idiotic sequences of words are psychologically interesting, for they demonstrate with instructive significance the workings of a shattered brain.”
― Max Nordau, Degeneration / by Max Nordau ; translated from the second edition of the German work. 1898 [Leather Bound]

“Man has two powerful instincts which govern his whole life and give the first impulse to all his actions: the instinct of self-preservation and the instinct of race-preservation. The former reveals itself in its simplest form as hunger, the latter as love.”
― Max Nordau, The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization