Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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