Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Talent is often a defect in character.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.