Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.