Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
Progress … has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
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