Quotes
Next >>
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier
Search
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays