No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
No emancipation without that of society.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Normality is death.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Intelligence is a moral category.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.