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

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.