The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.

Intelligence is a moral category.