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

The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.

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

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

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

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

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