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.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

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

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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

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

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.