Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.