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

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.