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

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."

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

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

Nothing is impossible, you simply just have to believe in it

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your Acts, the Nation needs action.

The Jonas Brothers are all sweet. They're so amazing to me. They've become really good friends of mine, but I'm not dating any of them.

Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.