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

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.