Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

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.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.