In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
The taboos that constitute a man’s intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.Collection: Strong