In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.