Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

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

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.