For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.