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

• In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
• True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
• No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
• Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
• Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
• Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
• The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
• Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.