True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
No emancipation without that of society.
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.
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.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Normality is death.