Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.