Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
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Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the d...
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Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered for a head cold...
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
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Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.
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Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.
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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.
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The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment to acquire gra...
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How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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You don't even live once.
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If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but a...
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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