The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. |
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. |
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. |
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. |
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. |
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. |
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. |
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. |
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Topics: Art |
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. |
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. |
He who integrates is lost. |
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. |
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Topics: Art |
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. |
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. |
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. |
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. |
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. |
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. |