The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
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.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
No emancipation without that of society.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
There is no love that is not an echo.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
