Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousness

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women

This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character