The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

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

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.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.