Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.