If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.Collection: Imagination
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.Collection: Jealousy
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Collection: Experience
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.Collection: Education
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.Collection: Science
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.Collection: War
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.Collection: Communication
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.Collection: Communication
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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.
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
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.
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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.
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.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.