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.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.