Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.