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

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.