Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

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

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.