Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
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.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
No emancipation without that of society.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Normality is death.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.