Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.