What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

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

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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