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

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

There is no right life in the wrong one.