Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her, so viel nicht zu lesen?
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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.'