Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

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 real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.