Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.