Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.