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

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

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.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.