Signori, chi ha qualcosa da dire si faccia avanti, e taccia.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave.
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman’s shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.