 A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. |
| Optimism is the opium of the people. |
| There are no small parts. Only small actors. |
| The best actors do not let the wheels show. |
| Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. |
| People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. |
| Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. |
| Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. |
| Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. |
| The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. |
| How goodness heightens beauty! |
| Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. |
| For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? |
| Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. |
| Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. |
