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

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

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.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.