If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
Talent is often a defect in character.
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.
The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.
It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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.
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
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