Philosopher

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

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

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Intelligence is a moral category.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

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

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

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

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

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.