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

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

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.'

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

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

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.