The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.