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 need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.