An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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.
To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.
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.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
The real truths are those that can be invented.
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