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 good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Normality is death.

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.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.