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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

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.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

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