Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time.
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Immortality is the only thing which doesn’t tolerate being postponed.
No ideas and the ability to express them – that’s a journalist.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
When I don’t make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart’s desire!
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
I don’t like to meddle in my private affairs.
How powerful social mores are! Only a spider’s web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.