Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.