The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

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

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.