It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
An irrelevance, and your life’s altered.
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
The critics don’t interest me because they’re concerned with what’s past and done, while I’m concerned with what comes next.
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.