“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.”
Death“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Love“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.”
Death“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
Love“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”
Art“Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.”
Truth“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Life“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Love“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Happiness“No emancipation without that of society.”
Society“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
Power“Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”
Society“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
History“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Freedom“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.”
Society“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
Work“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”
Best“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Technology“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Peace“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”
Art“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”
Health“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”
Power