The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.