Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

Your destiny is just waiting for you to show up

He that disobeys God, rejects his reign; and so God views it

The mighty have such simple weaknesses. I like to think it’s God’s way of keeping things fair.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.