Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

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.

As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.