None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

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

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