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

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

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.