Hugo Ball famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
-- Hugo Ball

#Real #Views #Long
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

#Beautiful #Heart #Age
What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.
-- Hugo Ball

#Reality
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 vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.
-- Hugo Ball

#People #Vowels #Want
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 Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.
-- Hugo Ball

#Rain #Self #Tree
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

#Ethics #Morality #Ethical
It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.
-- Hugo Ball

#Inspiration
No such thing as humanity without flaws.
-- Hugo Ball

#Humanity #Flaws

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

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