There is no true life within a false life.

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.