The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.