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

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

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

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

He who integrates is lost.