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.

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

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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