Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The whole is the false.
He who integrates is lost.
All the world's not a stage.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
There is no love that is not an echo.
Dissonance is the truth about harmony.
There is no right life in the wrong one.
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
There is no true life within a false life.
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.