Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.