One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.