Baruch Spinoza - Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge
Clement Greenberg - If the avant-garde imitates the processes of art, kitsch imitates its effects
Marshall McLuhan and Stephane Mallarme - Was it not the great innovation of the Symbolists that they suddenly turned away from cause and effect
Yosa Buson - Blown from the west, fallen leaves gather in the east
Virginia Woolf - Society is the most powerful conception in the world and society has no existence whatsoever
Marguerite Duras - They make advertisements for soap. Why not for peace?
G. K. Chesterton - The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal
Annie Besant - Evil is only imperfection
George Moore - Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible
Bertolt Brecht - One can describe the world of today to the people of today
T. E. Hulme - The Embankment (The fantasy of a fallen gentleman, on a cold, bitter night)
Marshall McLuhan - All language or expression is metaphorical
Oswald Spengler - Religion, art, thought, have all arisen for light's sake (3)
Edith Wharton - No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity
Elemire Zola - Coming out of the space that has bent over us centuries and centuries is the most beautiful thing we can do
George Bernard Shaw - In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness
Margaret Cavendish - I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements
J. Krishnamurti - To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty
Max Frisch - Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Marshall McLuhan - Appetite is essentially insatiable
Nicolaus Copernicus - When a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside