The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

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

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