What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of p...
Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.
The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning
In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human...
In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has...
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.