It doesn’t seem to me that anyone has discovered much that’s new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Category Archive: 1903
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
He who integrates is lost.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
To have one’s own story told by a third party who doesn’t know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that’s a technical refinement.