The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.

You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.

How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.