He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy
Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.