Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.