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

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

There is no love that is not an echo.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

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