"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

"There is no love that is not an echo."

"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."

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

"The joke of our time is the suicide of intention."

"Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people."

"Life has become the ideology of its own absence."

"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."

"Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations."

"Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also."

"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."

"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."

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

"He who matures early lives in anticipation."

"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."

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

"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction."

"In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations."

"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."

"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."

"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."

"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong."

"Normality is death."

"Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing."

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

"Wrong life cannot be lived rightly."

"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."

"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners."

"He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof."

"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."

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

"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."

"The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes."

"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live."

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

"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."

"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."

"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."

"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."

"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve."

"No emancipation without that of society."

"Horror is beyond the reach of psychology."

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

"But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain."

"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday."

"Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you."

"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."

"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."

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

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."