My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Talent is often a defect in character.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

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

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.