So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.