People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.