Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
No emancipation without that of society.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
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.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Intelligence is a moral category.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
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.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.