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

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

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

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.