I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn’t believe what a racket they make in my room.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn’t any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone’s being worse off.
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time.
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
You don’t even live once.
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.