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| Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match | | Stupidity | |
| The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. | | Uncategorized | |
| The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner | | Uncategorized | |
| The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity. | | Uncategorized | |
| The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. | | Uncategorized | |
| The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. | | Uncategorized | |
| The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span | | Press | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he | | Uncategorized | |
| The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. | | Uncategorized | |
| The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant | | Trouble | |
| The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original | | Appearance; World | |
| This is something that I cannot get over / that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character. | | Uncategorized | |
| To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all | | Men | |
| Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | War | |
