General Sayings

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.

If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.