Emotions and Feelings

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected .

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?