The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.
One cleans someone else’s threshold of consciousness only if one’s own home is dirty.
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.
There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don’t say what it wants to hear.
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.