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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the... →
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.