A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.