Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.