The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.