Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

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