14 Quotes by Hugo Ball

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

Punctuality can go to the devil.

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.

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.