The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

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.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.