Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.
There is no love that is not an echo.
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.