Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.