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 answered not in material but in ethical terms. – Hugo Ball
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. – Hugo Ball
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? – Hugo Ball
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith