Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

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

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.