The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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.

There is no right life in the wrong one.