The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

There is no love that is not an echo.

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

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

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