If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

All we really want to do is dance.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.