It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

- Hugo Ball

What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.

- Hugo Ball

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 wh…

- Hugo Ball

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

- 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

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 c…

- Hugo Ball

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…

- Hugo Ball