Wilfred Bion Quotes

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

The road to Hades is easy to travel.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.