The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

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

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.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.