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“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

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

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“I am not for women but against men.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”

“To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976) <br class="br">Context: There is no doubt that a dog is loyal. But does that mean we should emulate him? After all, he is loyal to people, not to other dogs. http://books.google.com/books?id=T9V0j2sfPpUC&q=%22there+is+no+doubt+that+a+dog+is+loyal+but+does+that+mean+we+should+emulate+him+after+all+he+is+loyal+to+people+not+to+other+dogs%22&pg=PA109#v=onepage

“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“You don't even live once.”

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Squeeze human nature into a straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear!”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.”

Die Fackel no. 270/71 (19 January 1909)
Die Fackel

“Nothing is more unfathomable than a woman's superficiality.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

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

Die Fackel no. 445/53 (18 January 1917)
Die Fackel

“War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.”

Die Fackel no. 46 (9 October 1917)
Die Fackel

“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“In one ear and out the other: this would still make the head a transit station. What I hear has to go out the same ear.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

“Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.”

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)