1. “Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.”
2. “Truth is inseparable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.”
3. “Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.”
4. “Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
5. “Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.”
6. “Work while you work play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self discipline.”
7. “Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
8. “Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.”
9. “Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rest to the dominated.”
10. “For a man who no longer has a homeland writing becomes a place to live.”
11. “Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
12. “The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.”
13. “Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
14. “The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.”
15. “Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.”
16. “In the abstract conception of universal wrong. all concrete responsibility vanihses.”
17. “There is no true life within a false life.”
18. “Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological,, category.”
19. “A good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
20. “Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
21. “Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
22. “To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.”
23. “Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
24. “There is no love that is not an echo.”
25. “Intelligence is a moral category.”
26. “He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.”
27. “Life has changed into timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.”
28. “Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.”
29. “True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
30. “Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”
