Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.
The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.
To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
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