The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

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

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