Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

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

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.