It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
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.
One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.
In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest.
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