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

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.