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

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates, because it clears away the traces of our own age; it cheers, because everything cleared away means to the destroyer a complete reduction, indeed a rooting out, of his own condition.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.