... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.