The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he |
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. |
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant |
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. |
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 |
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. |
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all |
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower |
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: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost |
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. |
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.' |
You don't even live once |
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought |