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

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

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

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.