Hugo Ball Quotes
- The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
- 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.
- What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.
- 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…
- Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called…
- 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…
- It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.
- No such thing as humanity without flaws.