"Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher."

“It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.”

“War, the World's Only Hygiene”

Source : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1998). “Mafarka the Futurist: An African Novel”

“One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.”

Source : Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.114, Reaktion Books

“For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.”

“..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?”

“A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.”

“Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.”

“To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.”

Source : Monika Angerbauer-Rau, Joseph Beuys (1998). “Beuys Kompass: ein Lexikon zu den Gesprächen von Joseph Beuys”, Dumont