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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

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

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

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.