My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
You don't even live once.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
To be human is erroneous.
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.
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