The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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.

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

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.