Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.